...for you have pushed my Life List to 437!
I saw 38 species total on my trip to Hawaii, 28 of which were new to me. I spent one morning mist-netting with a graduate student of the University of Hawaii, and a couple mornings actually birding; the rest of my sightings were in urban settings or just plain lucky. The best part is that there are many more species that I didn't get to see on this trip, especially those endemic to Kauai and east Maui, so I have a great excuse to make another trip to the islands someday! I didn't get many bird pictures, but here are a few of my attempts to capture photos of some of the cool Hawaiian specialties (and some alien species).
Brown Booby on the Shark Cage Tours boat (I've also seen them at Dry Tortugas National Park, but not this close-up)
Chukar at Haleakala National Park
I'iwi in Hosmer Grove at Haleakala National Park
Great Frigatebirds at Molokini Crater
Baby Common Mynas at Ka'anapali Beach (poor things fell out of their nest)
Black Noddy on the east coast of the Big Island (near Kapoho)
Jackie, the University of Hawaii graduate student, getting an Amakihi out of the net
Holding the captured female Hawaii Amakihi
Japanese White-eye in the net (we were hoping to get the 'Elepaio we'd been hearing nearby...)
White-tailed Tropicbird at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (above Kilauea)
And the one species I most wanted to see, but didn't, the Hawaiian Goose (or Nene)
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