Hawaiʻi's White Tern: Manu-o-Kū, an Urban Seabird 9thGrade Audrey raised her 4 children

Audrey raised her 4 children as a single mom and supported her family by working as a school counselor

with extreme winds and huge waves

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beloved landscape that became and remains her spiritual puʻuhonua

—The Dispatch

Hawaiʻi's White Tern: Manu-o-Kū, an Urban Seabird 9thGrade Audrey raised her 4 childrenWhite Terns are native throughout the worlds tropics and subtropics, where they breed almost exclusively on remote islands that are free of predators like cats, dogs, rats, and mongooses. Historically, this was also true in Hawaii, but in 1961 a pair of White Terns laid an egg and raised a chick near Hanauma Bay. Since then their numbers in the city of Honolulu have steadily increased, and in 2007 the White Tern, also known by its Hawaiian name, Manu