Birds benefit from Marines' muddy mission
304 views · Published 1 March 2012 · 1:02 · Indexed 23 September 2026
Channel: Star-Advertiser · 2012 · News & Politics
Once a year for a few days, Hawaii Marines get to tear around the marshy shoreline in their tracked vehicles — tearing out invasive pickleweed, dredging up crustaceans and minnows for the birds and creating mud mounds in the process that are perfect for nesting Hawaiian stilts. Video by William Cole / [email protected]
