Save Our Shearwaters

Save Our Shearwaters is the only state and federally permitted facility that can rehabilitate all native Hawaiian birds and the Hawaiian Hoary Bat on Kaua‘i.

Since Save Our Shearwaters was created in 1979, volunteers and residents have collected more 35,000 seabirds— 90 percent of which recovered and were released back to the wild. The majority of the seabirds collected through the program are members of state and federally listed endangered species.

In the past, up to 2,000 Newell’s Shearwaters — mostly juveniles — have been picked up during the annual fledgling season through the SOS program.