CATALOG

OF

HAWAIIAN

SEABIRD

COLONIES

edited by

Stewart I . Fefer, Darcy HU and Maura B. Naughton Refuges and Wildlife Pacific Islands Office U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

ATLAS OF HAWAIIAN SEABIRD COLONIES

U.S.

F i s h and W i l d l i f e S e r v i c e Honol u l u , Hawai i

1983.

INTRODUCTION

Seabirds resource.

in

Many

distribution

Hawaiian Archipelago

of

the

species

in

are

significant wildlife abundant,

with

Others are restricted in

wide

number

Pterodroma

sandwichensis), one threatened (Newell's shearwater. Puffinus and one sensitive

tristrami) --

All

species.

of

society.

a

including one endangered (dark-rumped petrel,

auricularis newelli)

effects

are

Hawaii

throughout the archipelago.

and distribution, phaeopypia

the

commercial

seabird

(sooty storm-petrel, Oceanodroma

species in Hawaii are

subject

activities and associated demands of

an

to

the

expanding

Their conservation requires an adequate data base on populations,

distributions and status Seabirds have biological, and

recreational

undisturbed

values.

nesting

economic, educational, aesthetic, cultural

Many

sites.

of the species

The

require

islands of Hawaii

presently

abundance and diversity of suitable nesting habitats. -..

- L,

Baseline

information on

isolated