For information about the Honolulu Museum of Art, visit www.honolulumuseum.org

Birds of Shangri La

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​For information about Shangri La, visitwww.shangrilahawaii.org

    Shangri La  is the name of an Islamic-style mansion built by heiress Doris Duke near Diamond Head just outside Honolulu, Hawai'i. The site is open to the public through tours originating at the Honolulu Museum of Art.

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      For many years I have acted as the contract Textile Conservator to the museum that is Shangri La. Based upon this long association,

I was given permission to photograph the birds who inhabit the 5 acre property during two recent site visits in June and September of this year.

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     The bird images in the slideshow include the Red-vented Bulbul, the Red-Whiskered Bulbul, the Northern Cardinal, the Red-crested Cardinal, three types of doves: the Rock Dove, the Spotted Dove, and the Zebra Dove, the House Finch, the Japanese White-eye, the Common Myna, the Red-masked Parakeet, the Rose-ringed Parakeet, the Golden Plover, the Shama, the Wedge-tailed Shearwater, the Java Sparrow, the White Tern, and the Common Wax-bill. 

    All the birds shown come and go on the Shangri La property as free beings. None are caged. None of the birds are fed by people.