Crying Fowl In Downtown Honolulu: ‘Chickens Are Wandering Around Like They Own The Place’ 0 Crowing roosters and squawking chickens are invading urban Honolulu, leaving residents sleepless, exhausted and angry.
Karin Lynn, a retired engineer, clamps on protective earmuffs each night to shut out the raucous 3:30 a.m. crowing of roosters while trying to sleep in her bedroom on the 27th floor of the Marco Polo Condominiums in downtown Honolulu.
Chinatown residents are accustomed to roistering merrymakers, but they’ve gotten a nasty shock from a new source of noise pollution — the ear-piercing din made by the male of the jungle fowl species, starting as early as 2 a.m., says Ernest Caravalho, who lives on the 20th floor of Gateway Plaza on Nuuanu Avenue.
Maddened by the persistent racket from an expanding horde moving into the Ala Wai corridor, disturbing their sleep nightly, an impromptu neighborhood posse began forming almost every night in the McCully district last summer to try to chase down and catch the worst of the perpetrators.
There’s a barnyard invasion coming into Honolulu’s urban core, as Hawaii’s colorful jungle fowl increase their unprecedented migration into downtown areas. Long a staple of country life on the island’s rural fringes, feral chickens are moving uptown.
