Employee displays banded Hawai‘i creeper

Photo By/Credit

Nagel, Megan/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
09/04/2015
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Biologists carefully weigh and measure each bird before banding. Hawai‘i creepers call softly to one another while flitting from tree to tree. Creeping up and down koa and ‘ōhi‘a tree trunks and along the underside of larger branches, they feed on insects living under the loose bark.
Subject tags
Wildlife refuges
Tracks and tracking
Monitoring
Endangered and/or Threatened species
Birds
Bird banding
Biologists (USFWS)