“A Bird is a Chief”
January 5, 2008 > MAUI TODAY No Comments |
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National Bird Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Manu : Bird HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The bird of the day reaps its reward.”
MAUI’S BIRDS: The native birds of East Maui have adapted and evolved to co-exist in the Maui’s unique and complex volanic ecosystem. Scientists believe that all of East Maui’s forest songbirds (passerines) evolved from an unknown finch-like species. These birds are collectively called honeycreepers.
- Hawaii Audubon Society
Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project
DLNR East Maui Forest Birds
Listen to Maui’s Native birds
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY – January 5th
- 1834: Kiowa Native Americans record this as the night the stars fell
- 1836: Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
- 1887: The first U.S. school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
- 1895: French Capt Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank
- 1903: San Francisco to Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
- 1905: National Association of Audubon Society incorporates
- 1925: Nellie Taylor Ross become governor of Wyoming
- 1933: Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
- 1968: Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law
- 1972: NASA announces development of space shuttle
- 1987: President Reagan submits the first trillion-dollar budget in U.S. history
- 2004: Pete Rose publicly admits that he’d bet on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds
BORN ON THIS DAY – January 5th
- 1779: Stephen Decatur, naval hero
- 1779: Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer
- 1876: Konrad Adenauer, chancellor of Germany
- 1895: Jeannette Piccard, balloonist, Episcopal priest
- 1918: Jean Dixon, psychic
- 1923: Sam Phillips, founder Sun Records
- 1928: Walter Mondale, (Sen-D-Minn) 42nd VP
- 1931: Alvin Ailey, choreographer
- 1931: Robert Duvall, actor
- 1938: Juan Carlos I, king of Spain
- 1942: Charlie Rose, newscaster
- 1946: Diane Keaton, actress
- 1949: Chris Stein, rock guitarist
- 1949: George Brown, rock drummer
- 1953: George Tenet, CIA director
- 1954: Bryan Hitt, rock musician
- 1961: Iris Dement, country singer
- 1964: Ted Harris Poley, rock musician
- 1969: Marilyn Manson, rock singer
- 1974: John Drew Nichols, rock musician
- 1978: January Jones, actress
