This video is not my daughter's work! She just found it on the Internet and tried (successfully!) to make me jealous
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She knew I want to take a photo of the Hawaiian Hawk: it's an endemic to the Hawaiian Island (Big Island) and hardly seen (occasionally, very rare) above the others of the Hawaiian Islands (and not at all breeding there!!!). It was Endangered before 2020, now downgraded to Nearly Threatened: there are estimated few thousands of them on Big Island (and non all over the world off course!).
Me thinks it got the downgraded status because it was very effective in preventing the re-introduction of the extinct in the nature Hawaiian Crow! Few times already there were attempts to re-introduce the Hawaiian Crow (they breed the last existing birds in captivity in California!), and all attempts failed - mostly because of predation from the Hawk! The other (significant as a food!) birds that naturally were a prey for the Hawk are long time extinct (mostly due to a Humans predation - hunting!).
The otherwise long story - short: they need to release a few thousand Crows in the wild in order to give them a chance
OR to decrease the ## of the Hawks! First one hard to achieve, second one not acceptable! I wish both species could co-exist naturally but I afraid the point of balance was wasted a lot of time ago!
Sorry for the length of the post but even this is not explaining all of the problems!
