wildlife inventory and issues affecting kawaihae coral reef
These images confirmed that this hawksbill dislodged a barnacle on its head. A mature barnacle was seen on its head a month earlier. The second image shows its head without the barnacle. One can also see the “footprint” of where the barnacle was.… Read more “Hawksbill can dislodge a barnacle”
The Kawaihae Reef has spurs, reef features that reach like fingers out over the sand, forming small, narrow canyons. This highlighted area has Porites rus or plate and pillar coral that colonized it. P. rus colonies here mainly formed plates on the walls of the canyons.… Read more “explore porites rus canyons”
