Native Seabirds Keep Turning Up Dead On A Popular Kauai Walking Trail … Feral cats and off-leash dogs are killing wedge-tailed shearwaters at Kauai’s Makahuena Point. Efforts to stop the carnage so far haven’t worked.
On the public footpath that winds along Makahuena Point on Kauai’s south shore, pedestrians can find coastal views of candy-colored sunsets, crashing waves — and often something more macabre.
“I would see all these dead birds,” said Kalaheo resident Tim Flynn. “So my wife and daughter and I started counting them.”
The Flynn family would count more than a dozen dead seabirds along the path each time they walked there in 2019, Flynn said.
Kerin Lilleeng, who walked the trail frequently after the coronavirus pandemic hit, said she tallied about 100 dead seabirds last year.
