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While the adventurous journey of nine young wild sihek or Guam kingfishers on Palmyra Atoll has rightly captured our ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Sihek bird, an endangered animal who recently returned to the wild, has laid eggs on their new home at Palmyra Atoll, an island in the Pacific. The eggs laid mark the ...

Palmyra Atoll is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge and is further protected–out to 50 nautical miles–by the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, ...

Far from the zoos where they were raised, the sihek’s home is now within the tropical forests of Palmyra Atoll, an island in the Pacific Ocean approximately 3,600 miles southeast from Guam.

Palmyra Atoll! Near the geographic center of the Pacific Ocean, the Line Islands stretch across the equator along a 1,460-mile (2,350-kilometer) arc.

Plans are underway for more young Sihek to be released at Palmyra Atoll this summer. “The short-term goal is to establish a fully self-sustaining Sihek population on Palmyra Atoll,” said Owen.

In captivity, Guam kingfishers typically only lay fertile eggs once they’re at least 11 months old.The birds on Palmyra Atoll are roughly 9 months old. Longer-term, biologists want to establish ...

The Sihek released at Palmyra Atoll last fall are the result of a cooperative of the following institutions who either contributed eggs to be hatched or staff to assist with their care: ...

The once-extinct Sihek bird recently laid eggs in the wild for the first time in close to 40 years; Nine young Sihek were released at The Nature Conservancy's Palmyra Atoll Preserve in Hawaii ...

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A once-extinct bird has laid eggs in the wild for the first time in nearly 40 years. After returning to the wild in 2024, the endangered Sihek bird is now laying wild eggs in its new Hawaii home.