Akekeʻe

So it's a really fun way to, I don't know, just interact with an animal like that and see how much you can figure out about it.

So I love the job that I was starting here in 2015, which was finding the nests of Akikiki and Akeke, two of the critically endangered honeycreepers, so that they could begin having a captive breeding population.

So that someday down the line, if these populations were to go extinct in the wild, there would hopefully be a captive flock that could survive.

be used to repopulate them in the wild someday.

So I can see, you can even see where it landed and it'll take you an hour to get over there.

So, and it'll probably be there for three minutes.

So that was a challenge for the Akeke.

But the Akeke, though, once you found them, they were often quite easy to follow because they were slow moving and often slow moving.