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Day 14 of Avian August 2025, Birds of Hawaii, hosted by @cookiedoves: ʻUaʻu or Hawaiian petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis) The ʻuaʻu spend nearly all of their time on the wing, though they occasionally stop in Hawaii's remote, high-altitude areas to lay a single egg per breeding season. Both parents take turns incubating the egg. Once it hatches, they embark on long foraging trips, sometimes traveling all the way to Alaska and Japan, returning at night to feed the chick by regurgitation.

Twin Peaks theme bird feeder

*Fish featured is a native Hawaiian freshwater goby species, 'O'opu Nakea (Awaous stamineus)

Always fun assignments from DownEast.  Here's a few I did for this month's "Animals Issue"

Cedar Waxwing ( Bombycilla cedrorum)

African Death’s Head Hawkmoth (Acherontia atropos) 7.5”X11” watercolor. Prints available though my Society6 shop https://society6.com/product/african-deaths-head-hawkmoth-acherontia-atropos_print?sku=s6-8412334p4a1v45

Life bird number 8, mourning dove.