Part 14 - Fauna of Hawaii
Fauna of Hawaii
All bird identifications are courtesy of Hart Rufe of the St. Lucie (Florida) Audubon Society.
A horse with a Cattle Egret.
Two cats.
A sea turtle.
A younger sea turtle.
A sea turtle basking.
A sea turtle mooning the photographer.
A Jungle Fowl, the precursor to our regular barnyard chicken.
A Common Mynah, originally from India. (On our first night in Maui,
a tree full of these outside our window screeched most of the night.)
A Saffron Finch, sometimes called the Hawaii Yellow Finch,
introduced to Hawaii from South America.
A Black-crowned Night Heron.
A crab that seemed disturbingly immobile.
A chameleon.
A praying mantis, near our condo.
A Hawaiian garden spider (Argiope appensa).