'Auku'u Photos

Sunday, December 1, 2019
'Auku'u (Hawaiian Black-crowned Night Heron)
This is the 'Auku'u or Hawaiian Black-crowned Night Heron. Sounds impressive, like something out of an animated movie about dragons. Like most herons his fishing skills, or at least his standing-as-still-as-a-statue skills were definitely well honed. The only thing was this particular fishing hole was a Koi pond outside of a restaurant in Waikiki. I think the fish were on to him, and many of them were bigger than him. Of course the guy stalking him with a camera while he stalked his lunch probably didn't help much.
'Auku'u 1 | bird 83 | Black-crowned Night Heron 1 | fish 6 | Hawaiian 2 | heron 3 | indigenous 1 | Koi 4 | native 1 | native bird 1 | Nycticorax nycticorax hoactii 1 | pond 23 | reflection 47 | ripple 22 | wading 1 | water 273 | waterfowl 2 | wild 1