The ocean can be an extremely dangerous place, even for an animal that migrates through and rides its currents for decades.
One of the oldest ʻiʻiwi in the state, discovered in the same area near University of Hawai’i in Hilo, is about 10 years old.
Native Hawaiians created feather capes using hundreds of thousands of ‘i‘iwi feathers; such capes signified power and ...