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  • Where to view: More than 80 percent of 'a'o live on Kaua'i, where the

    SFGate: Top News Stories Jeanne Cooper 2010

  • He 'ōlelo a'o ko ka wā ma mua, "He huli ka lima i lalo, he ola, he huli ka lima i luna, he nele."

    Starbulletin Headlines 2010

  • Act by not preventing deaths and injuries among Kauai's Newell's shear - water population, also known as Hawaiian shear - water birds, or a'o.

    Starbulletin Headlines Rosemarie Bernardo 2010

  • Act by not preventing deaths and injuries among Kauai's Newell's shear - water population, also known as Hawaiian shear - water birds, or a'o.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2010

  • Ua emi loa maila ia mau mea a emi pū nō ho'i me ka nui o nā kānaka, a 'o ia hele nō a hiki hou mai ua' ino i ka MH 1896, ka wā i pāpā 'ia ai ka' ōlelo Hawai'i, ma o kekahi kānāwai (Act 57), 'a'ole e a'o' ia ma loko o nā kula o Hawai'i nei.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2010

  • I ka makahiki 1842, ho'olaha akula 'o Kauikeaouli i kekahi mau' ōlelo a'o e pili ana i ke kapu o ke konohiki.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • Na lākou nō ho'i ka mālama 'ana i nā kumu ma ko lākou a'o' ana i nā maka'āinana.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • A 'o nā konohiki hana' ole pēlā a ke'ake'a paha i ke a'o

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • I ka makahiki 1842, ho'olaha akula 'o Kauikeaouli i kekahi mau' ōlelo a'o e pili ana i ke kapu o ke konohiki.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • Na lākou nō ho'i ka mālama 'ana i nā kumu ma ko lākou a'o' ana i nā maka'āinana.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

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  • Also known as Newell's Shearwater; endemic to the Hawaiian Islands, especially Kauai.

    August 18, 2008