Rising Tide Images
Kōlea Shore Walk
A kōlea strolls down the shoreline at dawn. Returning collectively with a flock from its annual breeding grounds on the Alaskan tundra, kōlea, or Pacific golden plovers, disperse on arrival and reestablish their solitary territories in the Hawaiian archipelago. Superb navigators with territorial fidelity, Pacific golden plovers, use the stars and the earth’s magnetic field to find their way over the featureless ocean to the same small patch of island ground every year. They may use the earth’s magnetic field visually with the magnetoreception molecules of cryptochrome in their retina. The return trip to tropical Hawaii of approximately 3,000 miles of open ocean is an exhaustive, marathon effort of 3 to 4 days and nights of nonstop flight at elevation ranging from 3,000 to 16,000 feet. Popular migratory birds in Hawaii, watch parties are held by birders in anticipation of their return.
Kōlea Shore Walk
A kōlea strolls down the shoreline at dawn. Returning collectively with a flock from its annual breeding grounds on the Alaskan tundra, kōlea, or Pacific golden plovers, disperse on arrival and reestablish their solitary territories in the Hawaiian archipelago. Superb navigators with territorial fidelity, Pacific golden plovers, use the stars and the earth’s magnetic field to find their way over the featureless ocean to the same small patch of island ground every year. They may use the earth’s magnetic field visually with the magnetoreception molecules of cryptochrome in their retina. The return trip to tropical Hawaii of approximately 3,000 miles of open ocean is an exhaustive, marathon effort of 3 to 4 days and nights of nonstop flight at elevation ranging from 3,000 to 16,000 feet. Popular migratory birds in Hawaii, watch parties are held by birders in anticipation of their return.