Keālia Pond National Wildlife Refuge
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- Mosaic Mural of Kealia Pond NWR, photo by USFWS
Keālia Pond National Wildlife Refuge is nestled between Kīhei and Ma‘alaea towns and features a coastal salt marsh habitat. Start your trip at the Visitors Center to learn all about the area and its feathery inhabitants. Nearby, the Kanuimanu Ponds offer an up-close view of waterbirds. A must-see is the Coastal Boardwalk that offers a chance to see many native and wintering vagrant species of shore and waterbirds.
Keālia Pond National Wildlife Refuge
Wetland
Managed by: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
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Birds
| American Birding Association Common Name | Hawaiian Name | Scientific Name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| snow goose | Anser caerulescens | ||
| cackling goose | Branta hutchinsii | ||
| Canada goose | Branta canadensis | ||
| Hawaiian goose | nēnē | Branta sandvicensis | |
| American wigeon | Mareca americana | ||
| mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | ||
| Hawaiian duck | koloa | Anas wyvilliana | |
| blue-winged teal | Spatula discors | ||
| northern shoveler | koloa moha | Spatula clypeata | |
| northern pintail | koloa māpu | Anas acuta | |
| green-winged teal | Anas crecca | ||
| ring-necked duck | Aythya collaris | ||
| greater scaup | Aythya marila | ||
| lesser scaup | Aythya affinis | ||
| bufflehead | Bucephala albeola | ||
| gray francolin | Ortygornis pondicerianus | ||
| black francolin | Francolinus francolinus | ||
| red junglefowl (domestic) | moa | Gallus gallus | |
| great frigatebird | ʻiwa | Fregata minor | |
| cattle egret | Bubulcus ibis | ||
| black-crowned night-heron | ʻaukuʻu | Nycticorax nycticorax hoactli | |
| white-faced ibis | Plegadis chihi | ||
| Hawaiian coot | ʻalae keʻokeʻo | Fulica alai | |
| Hawaiian black-necked stilt | aeʻo | Himantopus mexicanus knudseni | |
| Pacific golden-plover | kōlea | Pluvialis fulva | |
| semipalmated plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | ||
| wandering tattler | ʻūlili | Tringa incana | |
| bristle-thighed curlew | kioea | Numenius tahitiensis | |
| ruddy turnstone | ʻakekeke | Arenaria interpres | |
| sharp-tailed sandpiper | Calidris acuminata | ||
| sanderling | hunakai | Calidris alba | |
| least sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | ||
| pectoral sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | ||
| long-billed dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | ||
| laughing gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | ||
| black noddy | noio | Anous minutus | |
| rock pigeon | Columba livia | ||
| spotted dove | Spilopelia chinensis | ||
| zebra dove | Geopelia striata | ||
| mourning dove | Zenaida macroura | ||
| barn owl | Tyto alba | ||
| mitred parakeet | Psittacara mitratus | ||
| rosy-faced lovebird | Agapornis roseicollis | ||
| Japanese bush-warbler | Horornis diphone | ||
| warbling white-eye | Zosterops japonicus | ||
| northern mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | ||
| common myna | Acridotheres tristis | ||
| red-crested cardinal | Paroaria coronata | ||
| northern cardinal | Cardinalis cardinalis | ||
| house finch | Haemorhous mexicanus | ||
| house sparrow | Passer domesticus | ||
| orange-cheeked waxbill | Estrilda melpoda | ||
| common waxbill | Estrilda astrild | ||
| African silverbill | Euodice cantans | ||
| Java sparrow | Lonchura oryzivora | ||
| scaly-breasted munia | Lonchura punctulata | ||
| chestnut munia | Lonchura atricapilla |