[CINC] "For the Birds" fledging in Kauai.

[Lisa Anderson]

Thanks for that Paul-It will be interesting to see how the locals will take
this. My husband goes to Kauai often for work with the Navy-so I've been
lucky to go and help a little with the seal monitoring etc, along with my
son, Jackson. The locals are a very hard bunch to change when it comes to
"their island"-however the children eat it up-let's hope the young adults
will get a nice education stint on the reason the football games are being
moved (to be honest-I wouldn't like it too much) and embrace the ecology of
"their island". Education is the key-especially the young ones! Best of luck
to favorite island, Kauai! :0)

Lisa

 

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[mailto:channel_islands_naturalist_corps-bounces at rain.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Jr. Petrich
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 11:07 AM
To: channel_islands_ naturalist_corps
Subject: [CINC] "For the Birds" fledging in Kauai.

 

Aloha from Islands Farther West,

 Of related interest to the coming Sea to Shore lecture, last week the Kauai
Interscholastic Federation announced that night football games on Kauai will
be switched after Sept. 15th to Saturday afternoons. Recent research has
determined that the bright lights used during night games confuse newborn
Newell's Shearwaters, which rely on moonlight to travel from their nests to
the sea. The fledgling season begins on Sept 15th. 

 Hawaii State Dept. of Fish and Game stated that annually about 30
shearwaters have become disoriented and have fallen from the sky due to
light at one local stadium studied. The Hawaii DFG, in cooperation with the
Interscholastic Federation, hopes this action will contribute to a public
awareness about the Newell's Shearwater problem at hand: The need to
mitigate the light hazard that has contributed to a 60 percent decline in
their population since 1993. High school football games are a very popular
entire family event in Hawaii, with stadiums filling to near capacity for
most games.    Aloha, Paul Petrich

 

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