Originally posted by popcornbird
Wow! They are SO beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Do you see these a lot in Hawaii?
They are quite rare, actually. At the house I grew up in (I moved to another part of the island a year ago) we had 6-8 adults living in a tree in our backyard. It was a great location for them as the tree was mature with many branches and only about one block from the ocean.

This website lists them as uncommon: http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/Biology...mpus_birds.htm
This website has some really great pictures of some of our local birds!