"It's hard not to feel like a proud parent seeing them out there thriving and making history," London Zoo bird keeper Charlotte James said Jonny Shepherd/TNC-ZSL; TNC-ZSL The once-extinct Sihek ...

The birds were eliminated when the invasive brown treesnake was accidentally introduced to the island of Guam in the '40s.

The brightly colored birds are extinct in the wild, having disappeared from their native Guam in 1988 due to the introduction ...

Guam kingfishers are called “sihek” in CHamoru, the language of the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, which include Guam, an organized, unincorporated U.S. territory. These colorful, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Sihek bird, an endangered animal who recently returned to the wild, has laid eggs on their new home at Palmyra Atoll, an island in the Pacific. The eggs laid mark the ...

HONOLULU (KHON) – The Sihek bird, an endangered animal recently returned to the wild, has laid eggs on their new home at Palmyra Atoll, an island in the Pacific. The eggs mark the first wild ...