Sihek flying out of temporary soft-release home into forests of Palmyra Atoll. Photo by the Zoological Society of London It’s ...

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By Liz Kimbrough Caretakers released six Guam kingfishers, a bird species known locally as sihek, into the wild on Palmyra ...

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The birds spent the last month acclimating to their new environment on the Palmyra Atoll. Now, they’re flying free for the ...

Six sihek (Guam kingfisher) have been released into the tropical forests of Palmyra Atoll Marina Watts is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

Conservation biologists are celebrating a momentous occasion: they just released a small group of Extinct-In-The-Wild Guam kingfishers into the tropical rainforests of Palmyra Atoll, where they ...

WAILUKU–Six sihek (Guam kingfisher) are now officially living in the wild in the tropical forests of Palmyra Atoll. This release marks the first time since the 1980’s these beautiful birds ...

Now, 36 years later, it is happening. Nine sihek including one from Brookfield Zoo Chicago were flown to the Palmyra Atoll ...

Sihek flying out of temporary soft-release home into forests of Palmyra Atoll. Photo by the Zoological Society of London It’s been 35 years since this “cerulean blue and cinnamon” colored ...

Far from the zoos where they were raised, the sihek’s home is now within the tropical forests of Palmyra Atoll, an island in the Pacific Ocean approximately 3,600 miles southeast from Guam.