Hawaiʻi's White Tern: Manu-o-Kū, an Urban Seabird Island Readers Otto von Kotzebue

Otto von Kotzebue

and the Big Island's fiery volcano in this elegantly designed hardcover volume you can hold in your hand

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Hawaiʻi's White Tern: Manu-o-Kū, an Urban Seabird Island Readers Otto von KotzebueWhite Terns are native throughout the worlds tropics and subtropics, where they breed almost exclusively on remote islands that are free of predators like cats, dogs, rats, and mongooses. Historically, this was also true in Hawaii, but in 1961 a pair of White Terns laid an egg and raised a chick near Hanauma Bay. Since then their numbers in the city of Honolulu have steadily increased, and in 2007 the White Tern, also known by its Hawaiian name, Manu