Hawaiʻi's White Tern: Manu-o-Kū, an Urban Seabird Island Readers Published in partnership with Queen

Published in partnership with Queen Emma Summer Palace

The Lonely One

Ma muli o ke ʻano kūpinaʻi o nā ʻōlelo

Author Beth Greenway describes the perfect Christmas day in sing-song rhyme

Otto von Kotzebue

Hawaiʻi's White Tern: Manu-o-Kū, an Urban Seabird Island Readers Published in partnership with QueenWhite 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