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Raising Islands--Hawai'i science and environment: First Hawaiian "golden gooney" chick to fly soon.
How often do you get good environmental news?
I'm a bird geek. Or actually more of a romantic -- I shed a tear when I saw an Andean condor soaring above Machu Picchu (At that moment I was also very sore and weak with altitude sickness from hiking the Inca Trail, but still...). I also cried the first time I saw albatrosses doing their courtship ritual, which is not nearly as romantic, but was one of those things I'd first seen on some National Geographic special when I was 10.