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As night falls over the coast of Maui during nesting season, a ʻuaʻu kani (wedge-tailed shearwater) makes their way home. It has spent the day feeding over open water, and now it drops toward land, finds its burrow by instinct, and settles in with the low, haunting moan that gave the bird its name. Beneath the waves, a honu (Hawaiian green sea turtle) wedges herself under a ledge of coral and sleeps, as a ʻīlioholoikauaua (Hawaiian monk seal) hauls out on the beach to do the