The Pueo Project

Aloha! The Pueo project was present at the 24th Annual Hawai‘i Conservation Conference. A poster about the project was presented "Distribution of Pueo or Hawaiian Short-eared Owl: Utilizing Citizen Science to Aid Monitoring Surveys" by Dr. Javier Cotin and Dr. Melissa R. Price. The HCC congress used the iPoster technology (so instead of the traditional posters, our work was displayed both in a computer and a big screen). More than a poster, it almost looked like a pseudo-webs

The Pueo project participated at the 2017 Hawai‘i State Farm Fair, that took place just this weekend (July 15-16) at Kualoa Ranch in Ka‘a‘awa. We were located at the Education Pavilion, representing the University of Hawaii / CTAHR / NREM department. We had the great chance to share our passion about the Pueo and the citizen science project, explain the differences between our native and endangered Pueo and the introduced Barn owl, and the conservation threats that this speci