Bird Conservation

Mariana Islands

A brief visit from a micronesian honeyeater.  (It wasn't a target species so it was admired then quickly released.)

Hello, Tinian

UXO training - light reading

field base camp (photo by Fields of the Memphis Zoo)

cleaning and organizing transport cages (photo by Fields of the Memphis Zoo)

Kelly (bird curator at the Honolulu Zoo) and Peter (co-founder of Pacific Bird Conservation) set up mist nets

Reba and a collared kingfisher

forest reclaiming the runways

short flight from Saipan to Tinian (photo by Kelly of the Honolulu Zoo)

bird transportation

2015 target species: Tinian monarch and the bridled white-eye

releasing a rufous fantail (screenshot by Justin of the Toledo Zoo)

collared kingfisher and a juvenile micronesian honeyeater

Herb (co-founder of Pacific Bird Conservation) and Scott (curator of birds at Sedgwick County Zoo) extract birds from mist nets