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Published: March 21, 2009
In Hawaii, native birds face ‘disaster’
By The Associated Press
HONOLULU — Hawaii’s native avian population is in peril, with nearly all the state’s birds in danger of becoming extinct, a federal report says.

One-third of the nation’s endangered birds are in Hawaii , the Interior Department report shows. Thirty-one Hawaiian bird species are listed as endangered, more than anywhere else in the country.

"Hawaii is (a) borderline ecological disas...

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