Some good news from the Palmyra Atoll: following its successful release back into the wild in 2024, the sihek – also known as the Guam kingfisher – has laid its first eggs in the wild in ...

The brightly colored birds are extinct in the wild, having disappeared from their native Guam in 1988 due to the introduction ...

Thanks to years of dedication and the steadfast efforts of the Sihek Recovery Program team, Guam kingfishers have been reintroduced to the wild—not yet in Guam itself, but on Palmyra Atoll, an ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Sihek bird, an endangered animal who recently returned to the wild, has laid eggs on their new home at Palmyra Atoll, an island in the Pacific. The eggs laid mark the ...

I recently returned from a 10-week trip assisting with sihek Guåhan (Guam kingfisher) monitoring at The Nature Conservancy’s Palmyra Atoll Preserve. Last year, nine sihek were released into the ...

"It's hard not to feel like a proud parent seeing them out there thriving and making history," London Zoo bird keeper Charlotte James said Jonny Shepherd/TNC-ZSL; TNC-ZSL The once-extinct Sihek ...

The zoo says Sihek, an endangered bird recently returned to the wild, have laid eggs on their new Pacific island home at Palmyra Atoll, making them the first wild eggs for the species in almost 40 ...

The once-extinct Sihek bird recently laid eggs in the wild for the first time in close to 40 years Nine young Sihek were released at The Nature Conservancy's Palmyra Atoll Preserve in Hawaii during ...

HONOLULU (KHON) – The Sihek bird, an endangered animal recently returned to the wild, has laid eggs on their new home at Palmyra Atoll, an island in the Pacific. The eggs mark the first wild ...