Scientists spotted an elusive creature on Mauna Loa for the first time about a month before the volcano erupted.
Conservationists are equally as “transfixed” by the sighting of a young ʻakēʻakē, an endangered nocturnal seabird, as they are with the historic eruption, officials with the National Park Service said in a news release.
In a video captured by wildlife cameras, the fluffy little fledgling emerges from its high-elevation burrow and seems to poke around for something to eat.
Biologists set up the cameras to monitor the burrows after a “really good boy named Slater of Hawai’i Detector Dogs” sniffed out the nest. The dog also found three Hawaiian petrel nests, according to the release.
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But now that the volcano has awoken after a near 40-year slumber, are these endangered avians in more danger?
The National Park Service says no.
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