Zoo Specialists to Help Save Rare Bird on Maui
Avian specialists from the San Diego Zoo will assist scientists in Hawaii in a last-ditch effort to save one of the world’s rarest birds, the po’ouli, found only on the slopes of Haleakala Volcano in Maui, Hawaii.
Only two females and one male are known to exist. The zoo, which has a program to help save Hawaii’s endangered forest bird species, will be part of a captive breeding program in Hawaii.
“Maintaining and breeding the po’ouli in captivity will be the ultimate avicultural challenge to say the least,” said a zoo official.
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