Hawaiʻi's White Tern: Manu-o-Kū, an Urban Seabird Island Readers author of Proud Monster

author of Proud Monster

drama and short story) and some unconventional compositions (like song

Forbes  |  Hardcover

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Ma muli o ke ʻano kūpinaʻi o nā ʻōlelo

Hawaiʻi's White Tern: Manu-o-Kū, an Urban Seabird Island Readers author of Proud MonsterWhite Terns are native throughout the worlds tropics and subtropics, where they breed almost exclusively on remote islands that are free of predators like cats, dogs, rats, and mongooses. Historically, this was also true in Hawaii, but in 1961 a pair of White Terns laid an egg and raised a chick near Hanauma Bay. Since then their numbers in the city of Honolulu have steadily increased, and in 2007 the White Tern, also known by its Hawaiian name, Manu