SIDE TRIP: Wai‘ānapanpa State Park
A side trip on the road to Hana is always an adventure! The Wai‘ānapanapa State Park is a perfect rest stop steeped in Hawaiian culture. The off-shore rocks and cliffs provide excellent sightings of shore and seabirds, viewable from ancient shoreline trails.
SIDE TRIP: Wai‘ānapanpa State Park
Coastal
Managed by: State Parks
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Birds
| American Birding Association Common Name | Hawaiian Name | Scientific Name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| gray francolin | Ortygornis pondicerianus | ||
| wild turkey | Meleagris gallopavo | ||
| Hawaiian petrel | ʻuaʻu | Pterodroma sandwichensis | |
| wedge-tailed shearwater | ʻuaʻu kani | Ardenna pacifica | |
| white-tailed tropicbird | koaʻe kea | Phaethon lepturus | |
| great frigatebird | ʻiwa | Fregata minor | |
| red-footed booby | ʻā | Sula sula | |
| cattle egret | Bubulcus ibis | ||
| Hawaiian coot | ʻalae keʻokeʻo | Fulica alai | |
| Hawaiian black-necked stilt | aeʻo | Himantopus mexicanus knudseni | |
| Pacific golden-plover | kōlea | Pluvialis fulva | |
| wandering tattler | ʻūlili | Tringa incana | |
| ruddy turnstone | ʻakekeke | Arenaria interpres | |
| sanderling | hunakai | Calidris alba | |
| brown noddy | noio kōhā | Anous stolidus | |
| black noddy | noio | Anous minutus | |
| rock pigeon | Columba livia | ||
| spotted dove | Spilopelia chinensis | ||
| zebra dove | Geopelia striata | ||
| barn owl | Tyto alba | ||
| Japanese bush-warbler | Horornis diphone | ||
| warbling white-eye | Zosterops japonicus | ||
| Chinese hwamei | Garrulax canorus | ||
| red-billed leiothrix | Leiothrix lutea | ||
| common myna | Acridotheres tristis | ||
| red-crested cardinal | Paroaria coronata | ||
| northern cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | ||
| house finch | Haemorhous mexicanus | ||
| house sparrow | Passer domesticus | ||
| African silverbill | Euodice cantans | ||
| Java sparrow | Lonchura oryzivora | ||
| scaly-breasted munia | Lonchura punctulata | ||
| chestnut munia | Lonchura atricapilla |