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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: James C. Bruch. Timecode In: 00:04:22. Timecode out: 00:19:34. Notes: Hawaii; Maui birds. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Split track. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS
12/12/01
Interview with Jamie Brook
Studio 2D
For the 2001 Updates piece
4:33 My name is James Brook and my title is Avian Conservation Research Supervisor. We are up in Olinda, on the island of Maui.
JG/JB -back and forth about yes, this is the rarest bird in the world.
6:09 JB-the black robin has come back since they started mgt on the population
JG -so it is safe to say this is the most endangered bird in the world
6:23 -yeah -presently.
JG -why has it taken so long ..... the current status of the po'ouli
6:51 JB -the current status is there are 3 birds left in Hanavi that we know of. And a lot of our work in the early yrs was done identifying the individuals and mist-netting and color banding them and collecting feathers for DNA sexing. 7:15 after the results of the DNA came back we found out there were 2 females and one male po'ouli so since we have found that out we have been gearing up to translocate the female over to the male to try and form a wild breeding pair.
JG -why not do it in captivity?
7:39 JB-basically, it has been deemed to risky to take them out of the wild and put them in captivity as far as taking adult birds out of the wild and taking them into captivity when so little is know about them that we are going to try and keep them in their natural environment and form a breeding pair in the wild. 8:07
JG -why in January?
8:14 JB -January/February mark the onset of the breeding season for the po'ouli so we would like to introduce the female to the male on the onset of the breeding season so they can at least have contact and let nature take its course .....
JG -take us through the process of what you will do ....do you have names for the birds?
9:01 JB -no, I try not to name them. I try not to become too attached. What our plan is we are going to first capture the male, and radio transmit it and get a better idea of its home range, and once that has been done, we are going to try and capture the female and bring her down into the home range of the male, and by radio tranmittering the male we will know where he is, and then we can release the female in the vicinity of the male.
JG -where will this take place?
9:43 JB -this will be in Hanavi Nat'l reserve on the eastern slope of Haleakula.
JG -how come you don't have a radio transmitter on the male already?
JB -When we captured the male we just wanted to find out if it was a single bird ...
JG -what do they look like
10:39 JB -they are very cryptic colored. They are black and brown and have a black mask and their name po'ouli translated in Hawaiian means black-faced honeycreeper
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