By that time, there was enormous goodwill for these rare birds. Nene were designated as the official emblem of the Territory of Hawaii in 1957, prior to Hawaii’s statehood. When Hawaii became a ...

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE photos Nearly 60 years after a group of Boy Scouts carried 35 nene down into Haleakala Crater, Hawaii’s state bird has made a comeback — enough so that the federal ...

The nene, the world’s rarest goose, was once abundant across the Hawaiian Islands. Yet by the time it was listed in 1967 due to hunting and introduced predators, the nene teetered on the edge of ...

A pair of nene allow some Kihei visitors a bit of bird- watching in 2013. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to downlist the Hawaiian goose, or nene, from “endangered” to ...

The nene is a medium-sized goose that’s native to Hawaii. Part of a path in the park has been closed because of dogs bothering the nene nest, Friends of Lili’uokalani Gardens wrote on Facebook.

A federal hold on funding could upend a novel approach to preventing mosquitoes from sending a number of Hawaiian bird species into extinction.

the bird is an attractive, large, dark gray-brown and white petrel, easily distinguished by its prominent black hood and striking white forehead. While at one time this petrel’s nesting grounds ranged ...