2022_02_15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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SM: This is gonna be my next question about releasing birds – but my concern is you release the birds and if there’s a problem then those birds are gonna die, too, right… KS: Yeah… BL: Brian Ley – District 4. First apologies to everybody – I thought the meeting was at 6:30 and I had my alarm set – I’m working in Michigan so it’s 11:30 something out here so my apologies for being late and thanks Todd and, oh, Kanalu, for texting me and getting me up a little earlier than I was planning… Hey, are you in touch with Brian Leo – cause I know he was doing liver samples looking for toxicology in there – are you in touch with him and seeing if he’s got any of his results back? KS: No. Yes, I do know he’s still waiting for results… BL: OK… KS: So he’s not received the results from that… BL: Have you guys thought about doing blood samples or anything else like that seeing if the migratory birds might have brought in a new strain of something that’s killing the birds cause I know they’re having problems on the mainland with the grouse with the new disease that’s showing up that’s kind of decimating the grouse population on the mainland… KS: Oh, yeah, that’s interesting, so last year we were doing a pilot study with palila where we were just trying – cause that’s another, I mean, I regret now mentioning that word cause I’m sure I’m gonna get plenty of questions about it but in that study they captured 30 birds and they took blood samples and it was the only place on the Island – I don’t know if in the State – maybe the State – but where there was zero avian malaria in the birds – all the birds – so they caught 30 palila – but they caught other birds too, so, I mean, that doesn’t answer the question about game birds necessarily but I would assume that some sort of disease amongst birds would probably hit our native species harder and first than it would the game birds – so, I mean, that’s a good thing – that it’s not disease for palila. Like I said in those 30 6