French Frigate Shoals (Kānemilohaʻi):Tern Island Blog

Hey everybody! Long time, no post---sorry about that! At long last we have finally returned to blogging about the goings-on at Tern and French Frigate Shoals. We have a new blog/website, please...

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Aloha kakou! I have had so much fun, and learned so much at Tern Island Field Station over the past three years.  I send sincere thanks to all the people who have worked to improve the station...

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Welcome to our new crew on Tern!  The Kahana arrived on Monday with the new summer crew:  Summer Manager Meg Duhr Schultz, and volunteers Catherine Fox, Ryan Potter, and Megan Juran.  The ...

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On Monday, February 27, 2012 Tern Island came to Mrs. Randi Brennon's grade 7 & 8 science classroom...or at least it felt like that. Students studied maps of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine...

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Get ready for a sad picture, from the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program's Facebook Page -- The tale of French Frigate Shoals continues. In 1984, in response to decreasing condition of youn...

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photo credit P. Leary Today's topic from the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program's Facebook Page : The island that disappeared. One of the factors contributing to the decline of the French...

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from the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program's Facebook Page  "The story of the rise and fall of French Frigate ... Since 1989, beach counts at FFS have declined by 75%, and the annual num...

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If you're a Facebook-er, you really should "like" the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program's Facebook Page .  In the last few days they have been posting interesting information about Hawaiian Mo...

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A couple more videos for those of you who are Tristram's storm petrel fans. Videos complements of Dan Rapp and our trail cam: Tristram's storm petrel call to mate Getting your head into your ...

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As a mid-week break, here's some photos by Abram Fleishman, of the short-tailed albatross that visited us for a couple days on Tern:  Look how small the other albatross look around the ST...

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We're definitely in albatross season now!  Chicks are everywhere, and growing like mad.  And this morning, while I was writing this blog, Morgan Gilmour found a short-tailed albatross on Tern!...

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First mōlī chick of the year!!!!  We'll call him/her Ka Hiapo, First Born.  Ka Hiapo is in Nest #48 of our chick growth study looking at the effects of plastic marine debris ingestion on chic...

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Yeah!  We've received our first ka'upu (black-footed albatross) chick of the year, as of yesterday!!! Pictures to come -- don't want to shove the chick out for pictures so soon. ("Happy Hatc...

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Short but sweet this week:  Dan Rapp, who is practicing recording at burrow entrances and artificial nest boxes with a night-vision trail cam, has shared some videos of nocturnal seabirds in fro...

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Hauʻoli Makahiki Hou!!! An 'iwa (great frigatebird) welcomes you to Tern Island. Theme for 2012?  Sesame Street has nothing on us -- There are plenty of birds to count here! We have lo...

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What does it feel like to be on Tern Island? ...on a small, sandy island in an atoll -- an island that is about a half-mile long, less than a football field wide, and only 4 feet above sea lev...

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It's the start of a new season, biologically and personnel-wise.  A rather angry looking manu o Kū (white tern) sitting on its egg.  These guys nest anywhere they can find a flat space --...

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The new Tern crew loaded up -- along with SeeMore satellite technicians Konrad Schaad and Ralph Blancato, and Tern special volunteers Kathy Kawakami and Barbara Mayer -- on December 1st, for the ...

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Aloha kakou!  The excitement mounts as Meg Duhr Schultz reports from Tern that ke ka'upu (the black-footed albatross) have laid almost 100 eggs so far, including at least one nest with two eg...

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Tern Island is probably about 600 miles away from Lānaʻi High School, which is close to the southeastern end of the Hawaiian Islands archipelago.  On Tuesday, October 18th the two locations...

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Aloha kakou! Sorry there haven't been posts in a while -- internet service has been out at Tern Island for about a month now, is likely not to be restored until December, when two technicians w...

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This week we all got a good reminder that no piece of debris is too small to kill or injure wildlife. First we found this Sooty Tern fledgling stumbling around the colonies one evening. Becaus...

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011: For the first time since I arrived to Tern almost 3 months ago, it is still. The Northeast tradewinds, normally a constant presence at the atoll, are almost entirely absent. Wi...

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Okay, okay, you've probably all seen the sign before, especially if you've ever 'googled' us or even been to Tern Island yourself, but I couldn't resist. And true to Tern Island form, note th...

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The honu are hatching now!  Every morning we walk along the runway, to find Hawaiian green sea turtle hatchlings that have lost their way during the night. Honu hatchling.  Photo by Mark S...

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