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My hero died this New Year’s Eve, but I still look for her in the early morning hours.
Every summer, she flew 3,000 miles nonstop to the Pacific plover breeding grounds in Alaska. Then one morning in August she would be back, foraging in our yard. She would be skinny but still moving in her jerky stop-and-go way. That trait first made me notice these unusual birds: Hawaii’s kolea. I’m often surprised how few people know about them or even notice them.
And it’s so hard to imagine that she died a lonely, terrified death amidst the noise of explosions, flashing lights and missiles flying through the air.
Hawaii is such an extraordinary place. We should take care of it.
Inge Cordeiro
Mililani
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