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Hawaii Island – Living Things –

2018-05-19 by youseeaandiseeb No Comments

Hawaii Island – Breakfast –
Hawaii Island – Climate –

Following these, today is about the living things in the Hawaii Island.

I introduced about the climate in Hawaii Island – Climate –, the 13 climatic zones on Earth and the 11 exist in Hawaii Island. What a special place to have 11 different climatic zones in the same island.

There are many animals and plants where people live, I felt them closely. One of my favourite things of Hawaii Island is birds live closely. When eating at an open-air restaurant, birds came and stopped in the table or chair and saw me. It is very pretty bird came close to me and leans it’s head to one side.

And you can hear birdsongs often in the town. I think that never heard the voice of the birds like this even when I went to some places where were rich nature in other countries and regions. Maybe that voice is also beautiful and passes well so it sounds easy to hear. Warm wind, relaxing air, the sound of the returning waves, the sound of the wind that shakes trees, and high and beautiful bird voice…

I felt Hawaii that I imagined like “This is Hawaii!” but there are things that I was taught by my tour guide. Almost all of plants in Hawaii is from other countries, non-native. Also most of the birds are from other countries, they brought by human begins.

A small island floating in the Pacific Ocean where it is isolated from the continent, once had a unique ecosystem. There were neither mosquito nor ant, of course no mammalian. It was not necessary to to fight for birds because there were no natural enemies. Since it was unnecessary to expand the range of action, some of them did not even have to fly.

Then the first settlers Polynesians started living there, they used birds as food and feathers as decorations. And European culture brought in by James Cook, original ecosystem has changed by goats, sheep, cows, pigs and other fleas, lice, mosquitoes etc. It is now said that the unique plant is 5% of the whole, 70% of birds are to be extinct or extinct.

I write this blog what I look, listen and feel about the phenomenons I experienced while I understand that happenings are middle ground, and it is myself who is judging good and bad. However, I try to be in middle but I thought it is difficult to say “Hawaii Island is so great! Rich nature!! easily with this background. I think knowledge influences thought and then emotion.

Well! change the mood, about the encounter of the original bird in Hawaii Island Hawaiian honeycreeper. They live in the deep forest because they are sensitive, and they fly away as soon as they feel people. When I entered the mountain on the tour, suddenly my eyes were grabbed by a small intensely red bird. Brilliant sobering　red in the surrounding plants with slightly wet and darker green color. The guide told me “It is a ʻIʻiwi, Hawaiian honeycreeper”. Hawaiian honeycreeper is as beautiful as being described as jewel, it is so true. A The little red bird till the beak flew away as soon as I saw it something like “Oh I was found!”. But I still remember the intensely red in my head.

I had really nice time in the nature seeing a lot of beautiful living things while I stayed even though there is a long story of Hawaii Island.

from iNaturalist.org