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Family Anatidae

HAWAII

  Anas laysanensis 

Midway Atoll

LAYSAN DUCK or TEAL

Critically endangered species, fewer than 200 now inhabit wetlands on Laysan Island & Midway Atoll in the NWHI.  Once extant throughout the Hawaiian Islands before human settlement, the entire population was reduced to a dozen on Laysan Island by 1911.  Subject of intensive rehabilitation by the USFWS in the NWHI.  Endemic to Hawaii.

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