13 Free Photos of Pterodroma Sandwichensis

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Before the chicks were placed in their new burrows, they were weighed and measured by biologists.

The chicks were carefully removed by hand, placed into pet carriers and hiked up to the tops of peaks where the helicopters picked them up.

Hawaiian petrel chick being checked by a biologist. Photo credit: George Wallace/American Bird Conservancy

Getting ready to weigh a Hawaiian petrel chick. Photo credit: George Wallace/American Bird Conservancy

The chicks were carefully removed by hand, placed into pet carriers and hiked up to the tops of peaks where the helicopters picked them up.

After a Hawiian petrel chick was placed in its new home, the lid was placed on their burrow. Photo credit: Ann Bell/USFWS

The chicks were carefully removed by hand, placed into pet carriers and hiked up to the tops of peaks where the helicopters picked them up.

The effort is a collaboration between American Bird Conservancy, Kaua‘i Endangered Seabird Recovery Project, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Pacific Rim Conservation, State of Hawaiʻi Departmen

The chicks were carefully removed by hand, placed into pet carriers and hiked up to the tops of peaks where the helicopters picked them up.

The chicks were carefully removed by hand, placed into pet carriers and hiked up to the tops of peaks where the helicopters picked them up.

After being dropped by helicopter on to the mountain, the translocation teams headed for nest burrows that had been monitored throughout the breeding season. Each burrow contained a large, healthy chi

Hawaiian Petrel chicks imprint on their birth colony the first time they emerge from their burrows and see the night sky and will return to breed at the same colony as adults. Since chicks were remove

Endangered Hawaiian Petrels, or ʻUaʻu, are one of two seabird species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and are found nowhere else on Earth. They have declined dramatically due to predation by introduce

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