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This Conservation Introduction is Part of an Experimental Project to Re-Establish a Wild Population

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its Sihek Recovery Program partners transported nine extinct in the wild sihek (Guam kingfisher) to The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) preserve and research station on Cooper Island at Palmyra Atoll on August 28, 2024. Extinct in the wild since 1988 due to the predation by the brown tree snake, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) rescued 28 sihek and established a captive-care program, which has maintained them since.

Read more at  Extinct in the Wild Sihek Arrive at New Home on Palmyra Atoll | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service