An audio recording of this program is online.

Palila, endemic to slopes of Mauna Kea 6,500 – 9,500 ft.

Belonging on an Island – Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai’i, with Daniel Lewis.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we failed to make a recording of this Zoom program.
However, a 48-minute audio presentation of the exact same program was recorded at the Huntington Library in August 2018. Link to audio program.

There is also a video of Daniel Lewis’s presentation of his book “Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of our Future (2024 Lynn W. Day Lectureship in Forest and Conservation History).

Link to Video – Twelve Trees

Daniel Lewis’ books Belonging on an Island – Birds, Extinction and Evolution in Hawai’i and Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of our Future, are available at the Los Angeles Public Library. Santa Monica Public Library has Twelve Trees.

Environmental historian and author Daniel Lewis delivered an illustrated talk based on his book Belonging on an Island – Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai’i. Lewis, a native of Hawai’i, talked about extinct and endangered birds of Hawai’i, evolution, survival, conservationists and the concept of belonging. Birds discussed will include the Stumbling Moa-Nalo, the Palila, and the Japanese White-eye. He also spoke briefly about the birds highlighted in his most recent book, Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future.

Dan Lewis

Daniel Lewis is the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanic Gardens and a writer and college professor.  He writes about the biological sciences and their intersections with extinction, policy, culture, history, politics, law and literature.

Lewis serves on the faculty at the California Institute of Technology, where he teaches environmental history and humanities courses, as well as at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He is also currently serving a five-year term as a commissioner on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission and member of the Bird Red List Authority. Lewis is also the author of The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds.

Warbling White-eye, formerly Japanese White-eye Zosterops Japonicus, introduced to Hawai’i in 1929.

Red-billed Leiothrix, introduced.

Common Myna, widely introduced throughout the tropics.