About this campaign
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Like other ground-nesting seabirds in Hawai?i, Koa'e 'ula (Red-tailed tropicbirds) are vulnerable to predation by invasive mammalian predators such as rats, cats, and mongooses. Conducting predator control efforts near colonies is a proven method to increase nest survival and colony size. Since 2005 PRC has monitored the reproductive success of a Red-tailed tropicbird colony at Halona Point on O?ahu, and controlled non-native predators in the area to protect nests. From 2005-2020 these predator control efforts resulted in an overall colony growth rate of 520%. Additionally, in 2022-2023 PRC has monitored the reproductive success of Red-tailed tropicbirds at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kaua?i.
Photos and artwork by Eric Vanderwerf and Erika Dittmar.
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