Category: Birdwatching

ʻAlalā (Hawaiian Crow): Hanging on in Hawaiʻi

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

Although at least five crow species historically occurred throughout the Hawaiian Island archipelago, the ʻAlalā, or Hawaiian Crow, is the only one that still exists today. One of the rarest corvids in the world, the ʻAlalā was declared Extinct in the Wild by the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2002, after researchers had taken the last wild individuals into captivity in order to save the species. The ʻAlalā is also federally and state-listed as Endangered.

Like other members of its family, which includes the American Crow and the

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The Bird and The Tree

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This YouTube video was produced by The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

From the Northern Rocky Mountains, to the Northern Sierras and Cascades, whitebark pine trees grow in some of the harshest and most spectacular mountain ecosystems of North America. These long-lived trees are impressive in many ways, but what’s most remarkable is that their entire existence depends on an ancient relationship with the bird that plants their seeds– the Clark’s Nutcracker. Conceived as a visitor’s center film for Yellowstone National Park, The Bird and The Tree tells the story of one of nature’s great duos and how two very

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A Sailor’s Valentine: Stories of Kinship with Seabirds

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This YouTube video was produced by the American Bird Conservancy.

Seabirds have been a part of human exploration of the ocean from the start; icons of the comedy, grace, and challenge of a life at sea. They have been sailors’ teachers of geography and guides home. But while seabirds are long-revered by maritime communities, they are nearly invisible to the majority of people who live inland.

Starting in 2024, a group of six fellows set out to explore the connections between people and seabirds and bring more attention to these often forgotten birds. ABC’s Seabirds and Stories of Multi-Species Kinship

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