Hawaii, as it turns out, is beautiful. Pretty much everywhere. But, we especially enjoyed seeing the (largely introduced) flora on display at the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden.
For us, the sad part was that with all of these beautiful flowers, we expected a rush of tropical birds everywhere you went. And that was pretty much not the case.
We did see these guys (introduced in the 1960s),
an egret (introduced) perched on a cow, and were even able to catch a few native species in the mountains. But we did see a whole lot of (cute, bird-egg-eating) mongoose, and even a rat, and a whole lot of feral cats and dogs - all enemies of the birds of Hawaii.
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