Welcome to the UH Home page of

Welcome to the UH Home page of…

Gustav Rabindranath Bodner

Graduate student in the Zoology Department, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

I study native Hawaiian birds, especially:

Mobility and disease in forest birds at Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge

Kolea Bird (Pacific Golden-plover) migration

email: birdbrain(at)post.harvard.edu

Join me in research and conservation of Hawaiian birds!

Friends of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge

A non-profit started in 2006 to help native forest birds and their ecosystem

at Hakalau Forest NWR on the Big Island of Hawai’i.

Oma’o, Myadestes obscurus

Our native thrush at beautiful Hakalau!

(website for the Friends under construction – check back for a link, or email me to join)

Kolea Watch

When do Kolea leave Hawai’i to fly to Alaska for nesting?

Help us find out!

Kolea bird, Pacific Golden-plover, Pluvialis fulva

Male in breeding plumage, ready to leave Hawai’i for Alaska.

Most Kolea leave O’ahu around April 25 every year

(shown by previous research by Phil and Andrea Bruner and Wally and Patricia Johnson, and others).

When do they leave all the islands?

Is the date changing with climate warming?

What other behaviors are observed?

By counting Kolea in your yard, school, beach or park, and entering the data on the website,

you can help answer these questions!

Introduction to Kolea Watch:

Enter Data:

I started the Kolea Watch program in 2001, as a graduate student in UH’s EECB GK-12 Program, funded by

the National Science Foundation. The US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Hawai’i Nature Center, the Bishop Museum,

individual contributors, and others have helped support the project.

The web database is hosted and maintained by Tom Speitel at the CRDG,

within the UHM College of Education. The Kolea database is part of the Hawai’i Watersheds Database

The site supports students, teachers, and professional researchers in the study of Hawaiian waters.

Mahalo to all!

PS – I am available as a science tutor, all ages/levels.

I also enjoy proof-reading and editing, in any subject,

to help you get your ideas across with clarity and power.

email: birdbrain(at)post.harvard.edu

Notes:

Proper Hawaiian diacriticals not yet included in this web-page – kala mai.

Photographs not to be used without permission, and not for profit.