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Hawaiian Crows Return to the Wild, Where They Are ‘Guides to Souls’


The Hawaiian crow, or ‘alalā, has been extinct in the wild since 2002. A new effort to reintroduce birds of this species—considered important guides to the souls of the dead in Hawaiian tradition—is underway

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