Seabirds

Kilauea lighthouse at the Kilauea National Wildlife Refuge, home of a large number of seabirds including shearwaters,
boobies, tropicbirds, and frigate birds. Some nest here, some nest elsewhere.
The albatross, for which the refuge is well-known, have left for their breeding grounds in Alaska.

Red-tailed tropicbird at Kilauea National Wildlife Refuge.

Great frigate bird.

Red-footed booby.

A wedge-tailed shearwater on her nest under a bush just outside the gift shop.

The baby shearwater, a ball of fluff with a tiny eye & beak. The mother kept nuzzling it.

A tree in the nesting colony.

At Anini Beach, around 6 miles from the lighthouse.