Owls and Hawai'i: The Gallistrix genus, the Pueo and the Barn Owl
Aloha Pueo lovers! Today I would like to share some information about Hawaii and its owls. Owls are important to every culture, and specially to the Hawaiian one (among other reasons, Pueo is a powerful aumakua). A fact that not many people know is that the Pueo is not the original owl species of the Hawaiian archipelago. Pueo arrived to Hawaii around 1500 years ago (there are no fossil records before that date), The original owls of the Hawaiian archipelago are the Gallistri
Owls in the dark... or the tale of the Pueo surveys
Aloha Pueo lovers! Today we have carried out the Pueo survey number 40! Thanks to all the people that has been helping us, especially Kristy Lam, Afsheen Siddiqi and Lucho Verdesoto. They are our most experienced birders! We have been enjoying great sunsets all over O'ahu (I'll be posting some more pictures soon). We still have a long way to go (at least 65 more survey points)... Some days we have been lucky enough to see some Pueo (two Pueo seen last week! One just today, an
