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Laysan Island

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Lay·san Island  (lsän)
An island of Hawaii in the Leeward Islands northwest of the main islands.


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The duck comes from the isolated Laysan Island, which lies 225km off the Hawaiian Islands.
In the summer of 1994 NMFS biologists moved 21 male monk seals known to exhibit mobbing behavior from Laysan Island in the northwest Hawaiian Islands to areas throughout the main Hawaiian Islands, where there were no known resident monk seals and thus where threats to females would be minimized.
The species reached the brink of extinction when rabbits were introduced to Laysan Island in the early 1900's, but it recovered from fewer than 10 individuals after the rabbits were removed and the vegetation restored.
 
 
 
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