National Bird Day Day 5 of 2008 361 days left in this year

Manu : Bird
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The bird of the day reaps its reward.”

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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