The Virtual Manu-o-Ku Festival is going on right now! The Festival will be online from Saturday May 16 through Friday May 22. Follow the below link to go to the Festival!
www.conservehawaii.org/manuokufestival/

Aloha White Tern Photographers!
The Manu o Ku Virtual Festival kicks off on Saturday May 16 and will feature a White Tern Digital Photo Exhibit. Submissions are now being accepted for the exhibit that are taken of white terns here on Oahu. Submission to the exhibit is open to everyone, free of charge! All you need to do is email your photos to huimanuoku@gmail.com with whatever descriptions you’d like posted with the photos. You’ll get photo credit for your submission and our promise that we won’t further distribute or reuse your photos without your permission. 
The purpose of the photo exhibit is to share with others what you were fortunate to see and photograph. We’ve created a number of categories for your submissions and you are invited to submit up to five photos for each category. The categories are:
- Terns and Fish: White terns carrying fish or feeding their chicks. 
- Terns and Blossoms: Terns perched or flying amongst tree blossoms
- Terns as Art: “Artistic” images of terns captured with a camera (with or without post-processing effects applied) or that are drawn or painted (and then photographed for submission to the exhibit). Let your creative juices flow!
- Terns just being terns: Terns flying, nesting, preening, sleeping, interacting with chicks, etc.
Photos taken with any type of camera are welcome. As they say, “The best camera is the one you have with you.” And sometimes the camera in our pocket is the only one we have when we see the terns doing something interesting. Don’t feel as though your photos aren’t worthy of submission because you didn’t use a big camera with a huge lens. If you like the photo you took with your cell phone we want to give you a chance to share it with others!
Some tern behaviors are best captured in video and so there will also be a category for short videos of terns. It’s requested that you keep videos to a maximum of 60 seconds in length. 
The deadline for submissions is May 9. If you want to get fresh photos you can view the Active manu-o-Kū Nest Map to help you find trees where breeding activity has been seen recently. Remember to observe social distancing and relevant guidelines for accepted outdoor activity. 
Thanks in advance for your participation in the first ever Manu o Ku Virtual Festival's digital photo exhibit!

Out of an abundance of caution, the Terns and Trees Guided Tour, originally scheduled to take place at UH Manoa on March 15, has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

At this time, the White Tern Walk in Waikiki is still scheduled for Saturday, March 14. Any changes will be posted here.

What: Nesting White Tern Monitoring Training
When: 1-2PM, Saturday February 15, 2020
Where: Under huge tree on the Ewa/makai corner of the State Ag Annex lot at Keeaumoku and S King streets

Come learn how you can help us monitor the growing number of nesting white terns using the latest version of the data collection tools we've developed. We'll meet Saturday, February 15, at 1:00 under the huge tree in the Ewa/makai corner of the park area at the state Agriculture Annex at the intersection of Keeaumoku and S King streets. It'll take about an hour to get you set up with the app and to go over the basics of how to document observations of white tern breeding activity. Please RSVP by texting 808-379-7555.