#crampton island

[undeath1245]

Headcanon full names for the TD contestants

I figured that I should share my list of headcanon full names of each of the characters of Total Drama, with a couple of exceptions here and there (i.e. Chris McLean, Blainely O'Halloran, Alejandro Burromuerto, Cody Anderson, Harold McGrady, Devon "DJ" Joseph, Dakota Milton, Lightning Jackson, Cameron Wilkins, Nichelle LaDonna, Valentina MacArthur). Results may possibly vary.

Original Total Drama contestants

Gwendolyn York (sharing the same name as the York Region)

Trent McAllister

Duncan van Jensen

Courtney Ferrera

Heather Yang

Lindsay Berglund

Tyler Greenwood

Bethany Collins

Geoff Baskerville

Brigette Heinemann

Justin Carroway

LeShawna Martin

Isabella Crampton

Eva Alexandrova

Sierra McAnthony

Katie Bisonette

Sadie Jeong

Ezekiel Brimstone

Revenge of the Island contestants

Michael Holmvik

Zoey Abendroth

Brick Hopkins

Scott Bronson

Josephine "Jo" Arnold

Samuel Braxton

Anna Marie Lombardi

Dawn Nicholson

Beverly "B" Norwood

Staci Murray

Pahkitew Island contestants

Shawn Romero

Jasmine Abbott

Sky Rouleau

David Corduroy

Sugar van Hoffman

Amanda Dufresne

Samantha Dufresne

Topher Fellows

Ella Grimm

Maxwell Hunter

Scarlett McGrady

Rodney Fieldston

Leonard Hammersmith

Winslow Beardman

The Ridonculous Race contestants

Devin Letterman

Carrie Brennan

Thomas Wesley

Jennifer Walcott

Brody Simpson

Stephanie Fairchild

Ryan Carmichael

Rosalind Sanders

Josée Guillaume

Jacques Beaumont

Emma Zhong

Katherine Zhong

Stuart Rockford

Theodore Spudman

Dwayne Broker Sr.

Dwayne Broker Jr.

Kelly Greenwood

Taylor Greenwood

Jay Henderson

Mickey Henderson

Ennui Craven

Marie Crimson

Tammy Lundgren

Laurie Delcroix

Kristoffersen Miles

Ellody Newton

Marie Poindexter

Chet Levett

Lorenzo Antonelli

Gerry Drummond

Peter McLean

Total Drama Revival contestants

Caleb Edwards

Priya Rouhani

Millie Baldridge

Hezekias "Zee" Wanchai

Julie Martinson

Mary Kate "MK" Chung

Wayne Rupert

Raj Samaroo

Bowie Davison (based on the late English pop star)

Emma Wahlgren

Damien Laurence

Ripper Alderman

Axel Emerson

Chase Rodgers

Lauren "Scary Girl" Metcalf (sharing the same name as the actress)

Why don't you share me your fan name ideas?

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 7 March:

1777 – Sir Philip Crampton, surgeon, is born in Dublin. 1848 – First unveiling of the Irish Tricolour by Thomas Francis Meagher at 33 the Mall in Waterford city. He was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. 1864 – Archbishop Paul Cullen issues a pastoral for St. Patrick’s Day denouncing Fenianism. 1915 – ‘We shall never consent to divide this island or…

[roberthamiltonowens]

Hi Everyone.

As many of you know, Iam training for an Atlantic Row on December 4th.

Iam on a team of 12 where 6 row at a time, 3 Port side and 3 Starboard side.

6 row 3 hours and the next 6 rows for 3 hours.

We do this non stop for 40+ days from the Canary Islands to Antiqua in the Caribbean. 3500 hundred miles.

Iam doing this in honor of a good friend retired 28 year Navy SEAL Mark Crampton who committed suicide unexpectedly 4 months ago.

Iam working with and raising funds for the Courage Foundation for Veterans Suicide Prevention programs.

Please make a donation at:

Robrows4vets.org

( Rob rows for Vets . org )

Thank you in advance.

My website:

Roberthamiltonowens.com

[llpodcast]

(Literary License Podcast)

Sinister (2012)

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Sinister is a 2012 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by C. Robert Cargill and Derrickson. It stars Ethan Hawke as a struggling true-crime writer whose discovery of videos depicting grisly murders in his new house puts his family in danger. Juliet Rylance, Fred Thompson, James Ransone, Clare Foley, and Michael Hall D'Addario appear in supporting roles.  Sinister was inspired by a nightmare Cargill had after watching the 2002 film The Ring.  Principal photography on Sinister began in Autumn of 2011 in Long Island, NY with a production budget of $3 million.[3] To add the authenticity of old home movies and snuff films, the Super 8 segments were shot on actual Super 8 cameras and film stock

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We Are Still Here (2015)

 We Are Still Here is a 2015 American horror film written and directed by Ted Geoghegan and starring Andrew Sensenig and Barbara Crampton as grieving parents who find themselves the focus of an attack by vengeful spirits. The film had its world premiere on 15 March 2015 at South by Southwest.

  Opening Credits; Introduction (1.04); Background History (10.02);Sinister  Film Trailer (12.00); The Original (14.29); Let's Rate (41.05); Introducing the Double Feature (44.43); We Are Still Here Film Trailer (45.33); The Attraction (47.08); How Many Stars (1:05.06); Overall End Credits (1:09.28); Closing Credits (1:10.56)

  Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – copyright 2021. All rights reserved

 Closing Credits:  Haunted by the Pogues. Taken from the Sid and Nancy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.  Copyright 1986 Epic Records

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Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 All rights reserved.  Used with Kind Permission.

 All songs available through Amazon Music.

[mendingmusic]

Toxe & Embaci - Honey Island/Sorry (Elysia Crampton edit)

[eatware]

[sneek-m]

Monthly Listening: May 2020

I’m glad I found some great albums this month. This will probably be the last time I can listen to music this freely since I won’t longer be holed up in my home all day.

Here is May’s playlist. Below is a full list of albums I checked out this month.

2020 albums

Ace Cool -- Gunjo (EVOEL)

Addy -- Eclipse (Topshelf)

Astro -- Gateway (Fantagio)

BenjaminJasmine -- BenjaminJasmine (Palme)

BOL4 -- Puberty Book II Pum (Shofar)

BVNDIT -- Carnival (MNH)

CHEEZE -- I Can’t Tell You Everything (Magic Strawberry Sound)

Choi Ye Geun -- Even If I Get Lost, It Can Flow Anyway (Bunker)

Container -- Scrambles (Alter)

Crystal Tea -- Pink Movie (self-released)

Day6 -- The Book of Us: The Demon (JYP)

Dogleg -- Melee (Triple Crown)

Elysia Crampton -- Orcorara 2010 (PAN)

Euglossine -- Psaronius (Orange Milk)

Felicia Atkinson -- Everything Evaporate (Shelter Press)

Feryquitous -- Ideal (self-released)

Fire-Toolz -- Rainbow Bridge (Hausu Mountain)

Golden Ashes -- In the Lugubrious Silence of Eternal Night (Oaken Palace/Kapmes)

GOT7 -- DYE (JYP)

Haji K. -- Black Against an Orange Line (Daisart)

Haruru Inu Love Dog Tenshi -- Lonely EP (Ourlanguage)

Hayley Williams -- Petals for Armor (Atlantic)

I’m Glad It’s You -- Every Sun, Every Moon (6131)

Infant Island -- Beneath (Dog Knight)

Jacoti Sommes -- Travel Time (Orange Milk)

Jess Williamson -- Sorceress (Mexican Summer)

Johanna Warren -- Chaotic Good (Wax Nine / Carpark)

Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft -- A Heart So White (Melody as Truth)

Josey Rebelle -- Josey in Space (Beats in Space)

Ka -- Descendants of Cain (Iron Works)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith -- The Mosaic of Transformation (Ghostly)

Kehlani -- It Was Good Until It Wasn’t (TSNMI)

Kid Milli -- Beige 0.5 (Indigo)

KOHH -- worst (Nippon Columbia)

Lido Pimienta -- Miss Colombia (Anti)

Lil Soft Tennis -- Seasons (self-released)

Lil Tjay -- State of Emergency (Columbia)

Lj -- New School Dreams (MaisonDe)

Lorenzo Senni -- Scacco Matto (Warp)

Lyra Pramuk -- Fountain (Bedroom Community)

Maddie & Tae -- The Way It Feels (UMG)

Malcolm Mask McLaren -- Unfinished (Fiveridge)

Marja Ahti -- The Current Inside (Hallow Ground)

Medhane -- Cold Water (TBHG)

Mei Ehara -- Ampersands (Kakubarhythm)

More Eaze -- Towards a Plane (Aural Canyon)

Nana Kitade -- New Dawn EP (Babylonia)

NCT Dream -- Reload (SM)

NU’EST -- The Nocturne (Pledis)

Nuk -- Red Tape (Big Godz World Wide)

Osteoleuco -- 20_420_ost (Maison de PAL)

Perfume Genius -- Set My Heart on Fire Immediately (Matador)

pH-1 -- X (H1GHR)

RAY -- Pink (Distorted)

Reddy -- 500000 (Hi-Lite)

Rina Sawayama -- Sawayama (Dirty Hit)

Risso -- High Five (Waltzsofa / YG Plus)

Sakuran Zensen -- I Am Sakuran Zensen (Tawashi)

SpecialThanks -- Sunctuary (Marguerite Music)

Stay Inside -- Viewing (No Sleep)

Swervy -- Undercover Angel (Hi-Lite)

TALSounds -- Aquiesce (NNA Tapes)

Tamanaramen -- Sour Cream EP (self-released)

Toiret Status -- Otohime (Orange Milk)

Toricago -- Himawari (Uguisu)

Ulcerate -- Stare into Death and Be Still (Eitrin Editions)

Uminecosounds -- Miso (Umineco)

Wata Igarashi & Voiski -- 9719 EP (Delsin)

XanMan -- I’m a Bad Person (self-released)

Yonige -- Kenzen Na Shakai (Warner Music Japan)

Zenker Brothers -- Mad System EP (Ilian Tape)

Non-2020 albums

Cornelius -- Point (Warner Music Japan)

Halcali -- Halcali Bacon (For Life)

Haruomi Hosono -- Philharmony (Alfa)

Jang Pil Soon -- Soony 6 (Synnara Music)

Kingpin Skinny Pimp -- King of Da Playaz Ball (Prophet)

Mass of the Fermented Dregs -- Mass of the Fermented Dregs (Avocado)

May’n -- May’n Street (JVCKENWOOD)

Midori -- Second (Ciacada Peaks)

Miles Davis -- Dark Magus (Sony)

Nemuriorca -- Nemuriorca (Maple)

Pig Destroyer -- Terrifyer (Relapse)

Pinch -- Underwater Dancehall (Tectonic)

Quruli -- Team Rock (Victor)

Susumu Yokota -- The Frankfurt-Tokyo Connection (Harthouse)

Tatsuro Yamashita -- Ride on Time (RCA/AIR)

Texas Is the Reason -- Do You Know Who You Are? (Revelation)

Vainio/Vaisanen/Vega -- Endless (Blast First)

[desertdollranch]

what would maryellen or samantha's life be like as adults? i'm loving all the 'future' asks! :D

I had to think about this one overnight because I have a few different ideas. 

Samantha would have a LOT going on. With no need to work and no desire to settle down as a wealthy man’s wife, then I’m sure she would focus a lot of time on things she cared about. Grandmary won’t live forever so eventually she’d leave the house and her money to Gard, who’d be happy to give Samantha access to both. He’s got his own money, and always felt that excessive greed was in bad taste. He’s so proud that Samantha wants to use it for good.

After university, Samantha and Nellie would be running a school for girls in New York City, similar to Crampton’s Academy but for girls from the working class, from immigrant families, and orphan girls. Free tuition and free lunch. Bridget and Jenny would be involved in some capacity. Possibly it would be connected to a settlement house some way, so that Cornelia could also be involved, as she so enjoyed doing.     

The 30s are a little rough for Samantha and Nellie but they make it through okay. During the Great Depression, Samantha would have done something like the Kittredge family and opened the Parkington house as a boarding house. No need to hoard such a huge house for one person when people are being evicted and turned out on the street. I think it was Welcome to Kit’s World that talked about how wealthy people with huge houses were pressured to do this, since one or two people occupying a house was seen as wasteful and unfair to the people who had nowhere to live. 

Hawkins and Mrs. Hawkins are old and retired by then and Samantha makes sure they’re well cared for. Jessie has several more children, and so Samantha pays her a little more to work from home when she feels up to it. She offered to support Jessie without working, but Jessie still considers the dresses she makes for Samantha to be pieces of art. 

Despite all of her charitable pursuits and caring for others, Samantha still makes time for herself. She hangs out with Agnes and Agatha a lot and plays cards and board games with them while drinking lots of wine. She takes her young cousin William sledding any time there’s enough snow. She visits all the museums in New York City.

And once a month in the warmer months, she makes a solo trip out to Piney Point to work on her paintings. Sometimes she paints what she sees, sometimes she paints what she remembers, and sometimes she what she neither sees nor remembers. She visits Teardrop Island so much that she builds a little one-room cabin there, and calls it the Crying Cottage. Both it and the island certainly live up to their names.

Maryellen I have a vastly different feel for. I think that around the time she turns twelve, her mother would have a seventh child, a girl, and at that point Maryellen would be a little exasperated. Joan had just moved out, and now they’re back to six kids again? And this one is moving into the girls’ room, which had just cleared some space? Maryellen loves her new little sister, of course, but after Carolyn moves out the year after, Maryellen is the oldest child at home and has a lot of responsibility for the younger kids. 

So she’d be eager and anxious to get out on her own, and at 18 she moves out to Missoula, Montana to attend university there. That road trip she took at ten years old had a huge impression on her, as she realized that the rest of the world is very much not like Florida. She loves the big sky, the dry air, the beautiful and colorful autumns. She never lost her love for science, and decides to study geology. She gets to go on lots of field trips to Yellowstone National Park and Glacier National Park.  

In addition to her research and teaching at the university, Maryellen also does a lot of volunteer work with her local Girl Scouts. She gives regular lectures and leads activities teaching about earth sciences, and does guided hikes with them to places that are geologically interesting, which are easy to find in the mountain west. She also gives presentations at elementary and middle schools, since she has such a gift for communicating science in a way that kids understand and connect with. 

In the 90s, Davy wants to do a documentary about the volcanoes of Yellowstone, and he asks Maryellen to be part of it. This puts some of her research on the map and gets a lot of people interested in it. 

She travels a lot but always comes home to Montana. She forms her own family of other women who grew up in the 1950s and felt the pressure to be anyone but themselves. The 1970s are good to her. She’s very happy with herself. She keeps pet snails and frogs and bird feeders in the yard. 

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 7 March:

#OTD in Irish History | 7 March:

1777 – Sir Philip Crampton, surgeon, is born in Dublin. 1848 – First unveiling of the Irish Tricolour by Thomas Francis Meagher at 33 the Mall in Waterford city. He was an Irish nationalist and leader of the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. 1864 – Archbishop Paul Cullen issues a pastoral for St. Patrick’s Day denouncing Fenianism. 1915 – ‘We shall never consent to divide this island or…

[deep-dive]

Toxe & Embaci – Honey Island/Sorry (Elysia Crampton Edit)

[llpodcast]

(Literary License Podcast)

Castle Freak (1995)

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Castle Freak is a 1995 American direct-to-video horror film directed by Stuart Gordon. The film stars Jeffrey Combs as John Reilly, an American recovering alcoholic who inherits an Italian castle when a distant relative passes away. John travels to Italy with his estranged wife Susan (Barbara Crampton) and blind daughter Rebecca (Jessica Dollarhide). The three plan to stay at the castle, but unbeknownst to them, a freakish monster locked away in the basement of the castle is about to escape and commit a series of murders. The police place John as the prime suspect, leading him to confront his alcoholism, fight the demon and prove himself innocent. Castle Freak went into production in 1994 after Gordon noticed art for the film in producer Charles Band's office. Gordon agreed to develop the film on Band's condition that the film take place in a castle, contain a freak, and would be shot on a very low budget. Gordon obliged as he would be able to cast who he wanted in the film and would get the final cut. The film was shot in 1994 in a castle owned by Band in Italy, where Gordon had previously shot The Pit and the Pendulum.

 Castle Freak (2020)

 Castle Freak is a 2020 American direct-to-video horror film that was directed by Tate Steinsiek. It has been billed as a reboot of the 1995 Stuart Gordon film by the same name, which is a loose adaptation of the stories "The Outsider" and "The Dunwich Horror" by H.P. Lovecraft.

 Opening Credits; Introduction (.40); Background History (29.18); Castle Freak (1995) Film Trailer (30.35); The Original (32.43); Let's Rate (1:10.15); Amazing Design Advertisement (1:30.27); Introducing a Remake (1:31.38); Castle Freak (2020) Film Trailer (1:32.06); The Remake (1:34.09); How Many Stars (2:18.31); End Credits (2:29.58); Closing Credits (2:31.48)

 Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – copyright 2021. All rights reserved

 Closing Credits:  Freak Like Me by The Sugababes. Taken from the album Angels With Dirty Faces.  Copyright 2002 Island/Universal Records.

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Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 All rights reserved.  Used with Kind Permission.

 All songs available through Amazon Music.

[jcusnetworksba1002july2019]

MAPS = POWER (?)

Figure 1: Hand holding globe icon (Saggitarius, 2016)

Geographical maps are reflected illustrations of geographical realities, telling of specific attributes of each landmass, left up to the discretion of the author, to be used in situations where spatial relationships are paramount (International Cartographic Association, 1995).

The most obvious and straightforward use of maps would be for directive purposes, but there is so much more to maps than simply such a use alone. Although seemingly insignificant in the grander scheme of things, maps are in actuality of exceedingly great importance, at least so politically. Their significance lies in the fact that they are often depictions of legitimate political authority. This is so, for mapping does influence the world as we see it, in the sense that they demarcate the territory a government holds control over, and by proxy, the limits of their wielded authority (Bryan, 2011). Ultimately, geographical territories are arbitrary and left to the discretion of those in power, thereby posing the possibility of the maps being abused for political means, being used to fulfill political agendas. It is by no means a stretch to consider maps to be pickings from previously known information manipulated to advance the mapmaker’s agenda (Wood, Kaiser & Abramms, 2007). An apt example goes as follows, there exists the of dispute Korea and Japan over an island referred to as Dokdo and Takeshima respectively (Channel News Asia, 2019). Both countries claim to hold legitimate authority over the island, with such a territorial disagreement reflected in their individually recognized maps. The real significance behind the island lies not so much in the territory itself, but is rather a symbolic one, in which nationalistic pride is on the line.

When extrapolated to the global political scene, the same applies. Maps and power are both closely interlinked concepts, as maps are fluid concepts, and are hence able to be influenced with ease by external factors such as power. For instance, Europe has almost always conventionally been the center in the world map, a phenomenon potentially attributable to its global influence in the late Middle Ages, via the ‘Age of Discovery’. In recent times however, with changes in the international political climate with power gradually shifting away from Europe, China, an emerging global superpower, had published its own rendition of the world map titled the ‘vertical world map’, with itself at the center (Jacobs, 2019). As far as hearsay goes, there very much exists the possibility of such a vertical representation being the world map of the future.

In conclusion, maps, although seemingly innocuous enough, ought not to be undermined.

References:

Mission. (2014, July 2). Retrieved from https://icaci.org/mission/

Bryan, J. (2011). Maps and power Jeremy Crampton Mapping: A critical introduction to cartography and GIS 2010 Wiley-Blackwell Malden, MA and Oxford Denis Wood John Fels John Krygier Rethinking the power of maps 2010 The Guilford Press New York and London. Political Geography, 30(4), 236-238. Retrieved from http://www.deniswood.net/content/sdarticle.pdf

Wood, D., Kaiser, W. L., & Abramms, B. (2007). Seeing through maps: Many ways to see the world. Oxford: New Internationalist. doi:10.1080/08873631003589982

An Olympic dispute: Japan rejects South Korea anger over map. (2019, July 24). Channel News Asia. Retrieved from https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/an-olympic-dispute–japan-rejects-south-korea-anger-over-map-11748842

Jacobs, F. (2019, August 12). The world, but not as we know it. Retrieved from https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/future-world-map?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

[trancefeminine]

my (virtue signaling and bullshit-free) 50 favorite tracks of 2018 (loosely in order):

1. sophie - is it cold in the water

2. yves tumor - lifetime

3. christine & the queens - the walker

4. skee mask - flyby vfr

5. rosalia - pienso en tu mira

6. giant swan - the plaque

7. marie davidson - work it

8. tommy cash - x-ray

9. kacey musgraves - space cowboy

10. sega bodega - kisses 2 my phone

11. helena hauff - lifestyle guru

12. playboi carti - poke it out

13. colin self - survival

14. lanark artefax - touch absence (intimidating stillness mix)

15. nicholas brittell - agape

16. against all logic - rave on u

17. megan thee stallion - cocky af

18. kai whiston - for fuck sake

19. adrienne lenker - cradle

20. empress of - when im with him

21. johnny greenwood - the tailor of fitzrovia

22. charli xcx - focus

23. oneohtrix point never & alex g - babylon

24. serpentwithfeet - bless ur heart

25. e-talking - telephone rose

26. mitski - two slow dancers

27. grouper - driving

28. lorenzo senni - the shape of trance to come (tale of us remix)

29. roisin murphy & maurice fulton - plaything

30. tim hecker - this life

31. dj koze - bonfire

32. filter dread - buzzing

33. robyn - missing u

34. bicep - opal (four tet remix)

35. laurel halo - raw silk uncut wood

36. zuli - trigger finger

37. englesia & gxtana - naive

38. rebekah - halo effect

39. james blake - if the car besides you moves ahead

40. ssion - dogs on asphalt

41. upsammy - vacate or annihilate

42. grrl - redlight

43. bjork - arisen my senses (kelly lee owens remix)

44. let’s eat grandma - hot pink

45. kasper marott - keflavik

46. snail mail - pristine

47. toxe - honey island (embaci & elysia crampton vocal edit)

48. us girls - rosebud

49. amnesia scanner - as symmetribal

50. john maus - outer space

[usfwspacific]

Hope Hatches for Hawaiian Bird

First Hatch Gives Hope for the Future of an Endangered Hawaiian Bird 

ʻAkikiki chick peaks out from a nest. Photo by SZDG

Conservationists in Hawai‘i are rejoicing over the first successful breeding of ‘akikiki in captivity. The ‘akikiki is a critically endangered species found only in the remote forests of Kaua‘i, and the young fledgling represents a significant step in efforts to save this small Hawaiian honeycreeper.

ʻAkikiki occupy an increasingly small rang on the island of Kauai. There are fewer than 500 birds left in the wild. Gif shows an ʻakikiki in a nest and a map of the ʻakikiki range. 

“The parents that produced this offspring came from eggs collected in the wild.” said Jennifer Pribble, Research Coordinator, Hawai‘i Endangered Bird Conservation Program, San Diego Zoo Global. “So this is the first offspring ever produced in captivity. It was parent-reared, raised completely by its mother, without any human intervention. The parents are a 3-year old male and 2-year old female.”

ʻAkikiki nests in the wild are very hard to find due to their small size and remote forest locations. Photos of ʻAkikiki nests by SDZG.

Eggs from ‘akikiki have been collected from native forest habitat since 2015 as part of an effort to preserve the species from extinction. The eggs were brought into human care to start a breeding population through a collaborative effort by the Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery Project, State of Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office, and San Diego Zoo Global’s Hawai‘i Endangered Bird Conservation Program.

“The ‘akikiki population has shown steep declines over the past 10 to 15 years, and now number fewer than 500 birds in the wild,” said Lisa “Cali” Crampton, Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery Project Coordinator. She adds, “We hope that one day this young bird and its kin will be released on the Alaka‘i Plateau to help turn this number around.”

“The future of forest birds on Kaua‘i depends on all of us working together and is especially important for critically endangered birds like the ‘akikiki,” said Michelle Clark, Kaua‘i Partnerships Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “A panel of experts in Hawaiian forest bird conservation identified the initiation of a conservation breeding program as an essential step to prevent extinction of ‘akikiki. Being able to reproduce in captivity is another step forward for the species.”  

About the ‘Akikiki

The ‘akikiki is a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper found only on the island of Kaua‘i. This small bird species has been severely affected by introduced diseases such as avian malaria, as well as loss of native forest habitat, hurricanes, and the introduction of non-native predator species in the wild. Very little is known about ‘akikiki and they have not been raised in an intensive care setting before. Conservationists with the Hawai‘i Endangered Bird Conservation Program have successfully cared for a number of other similar native Hawaiian birds and are using these and new techniques to help this endangered species thrive.

An ʻakikiki on a feeding scale in captivity. Photo by SDZG.

“After collecting the first ‘akikiki eggs and hand-raising the chicks, it is exciting to have confirmation that our artificial incubation and hand-rearing techniques are successful with this milestone of ‘akikiki reproducing in captivity,” said Jeremy Hodges, Research Coordinator, Hawai‘i Endangered Bird Conservation Program, San Diego Zoo Global.

Partners in Conservation

This effort has also been supported by the Mohamed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, American Bird Conservancy, Hawaiian Airlines, Kaua‘i Realty, Bryan and Tanya Tanaka, and anonymous donors.

Bringing species back from the brink of extinction is the goal of San Diego Zoo Global. As a leader in conservation, the work of San Diego Zoo Global includes onsite wildlife conservation efforts (representing both plants and animals) at the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, as well as international field programs on six continents. The work of these entities is inspiring children through the San Diego Zoo Kids network, reaching out through the Internet and in children’s hospitals nationwide. The work of San Diego Zoo Global is made possible by the San Diego Zoo Global Wildlife Conservancy and is supported in part by the Foundation of San Diego Zoo Global.

The Kaua‘i Forest Bird Recovery Project is a collaboration between the Pacific Studies Cooperative Unit of the University of Hawai'i and the Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife. Its mission is to promote knowledge, appreciation, and conservation of Kauai’s native forest birds, with a particular focus on the three endangered species: Puaiohi, ‘Akikiki and ‘Akeke‘e. For more information, please see www.kauaiforestbirds.org. The mission of the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Forestry and Wildlife is to responsibly manage and protect watersheds, native ecosystems, and cultural resources and provide outdoor recreation and sustainable forest products opportunities, while facilitating partnerships, community involvement and education.  

The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The mission of the Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office is to conserve and restore native biodiversity and ecological integrity of Pacific Island ecosystems for the benefit of present and future generations through leadership, science-based management, and collaborative partnerships.  

More Photos available at https://sandiegozoo.box.com/s/iju13j7bozxx2k6p4241bnb0mu2epqr3