Joan Conrow

In the 21 years she's lived on the island of Kauai, freelance
journalist Joan Conrow has never once gotten a case of rock fever. But she's definitely learned to slow down and enjoy the marvels of nature, an approach that's conducive to observing the birds, whales, turtles, monk seals and other resident and migratory wildlife that call Hawaii home. When she isn't outside looking or gardening, she's at her desk writing articles for a variety of regional and national publications, while keeping up with her personal blog.

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Chicks Raising Chicks

It’s usually Hawaii’s stunning scenery that gets the media attention, but this time it’s the sexual preferences of our Laysan albatrosses, which arrive each winter to partake in courtship and chick-rearing rituals.

As Steven Colbert observed in a recent spoof on Comedy Central, a number of female-female couples have been documented among the seabirds nesting on Oahu.

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Staying Alive


A wedgetail shearwater fledgling prepares for its first flight. [Photo: Hob Osterlund]
I was walking along a north Kauai coastline the other day when I paused to peer into a wedgetail shearwater’s burrow, prompting a friend to admonish: “Look, we woke it up. It was sleeping.”

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