NATIONAL PARK SERVICE photos Nearly 60 years after a group of Boy Scouts carried 35 nene down into Haleakala Crater, Hawaii’s state bird has made a comeback — enough so that the federal ...

They were reintroduced to Haleakala National Park in 1962 ... In 2011, the estimated population of nene on Maui was 350 to 375 birds, the draft report said. The goal of the Haleakala project ...

At Haleakala National Park, the main wildlife to watch for are bird species ... forest area), and then the larger species like the nene and chukar as you approach and at the summit.