<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hello Pollinator Colleagues:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have been out of the office and so
missed forwarding this message to you in a timely manner. Nonetheless,
I thought you might find the email below to be of interest - especially
the 30-minute video on Hawaiian birds.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Enjoy!</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">-Patricia</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Patricia S. De Angelis, Ph.D.<br>
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<br><font size=1 color=#800080 face="sans-serif">----- Forwarded by Patricia
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<td><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Kamehameha Day, and hawaiian birds</font></table>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">June 11—next Monday—is Kamehameha Day,
a state holiday in Hawaii celebrating Kamehameha I, who unified the Kingdom
of Hawaii and ended the wars among the Hawaiian people. Although his methods
may have been a little extreme (anyone who has stopped at the Pali lookout
between Honolulu and Kailua may know what I mean), it’s still a pretty
big party in the islands, one of the few days each year when native and
local people take Waikiki back from the mainland and Japanese tourists
who occupy it most of the time.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">There’s a small version of the party here
in DC. The National Statuary Hall has a copy of a famous statue of Kamehameha
that on June 11 gets covered with lei, with a celebration that’s a rare
opportunity to see authentic hula here on the mainland. It may be a coincidence
but now that we have a President from Hawaii, the Kamehameha statue has
a prominent place in Emancipation Hall at the new Capital visitors center.
(Unless it got moved back in the last couple years.)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">It’s worth checking out, even if you can’t
make it on 6/11. Take a close look at his helmet and cloak; for one thing,
it’s the most authentic part of the statue (it’s pretty unlikely Kamehameha
had such European features); although it’s cast in bronze and gold leaf,
his actual cloak and helmet would have been made of many thousands of tiny
yellow and red feathers of native Hawaiian birds. It seems impossible now
that they ever could have existed in enough numbers to make such things
possible.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">Which leads us to this: ABC recently produced
a 30-minute video on the extinction crisis among Hawaiian birds; it’s
really pretty good (if a little bird-centric; the extinction crisis in
Hawaii involves more than birds), with some good—even remarkable—shots
of very rare forest birds (and interviews with a number of old friends).
Watching it seems to me like a good way to celebrate Hawaii’s national
day. You can find it at:</font>
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<br><a href=http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/oceansandislands/eh.html><font size=2 color=blue face="Calibri"><u>http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/oceansandislands/eh.html</u></font></a>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">I hope you all have a good weekend; aloha
e kakou,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Calibri">p.l.</font>
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