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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laysan_Duck
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