Can anything can be done about wild cockatoos on Tantalus?

They make the most raucous noise I have ever heard. I think they are multiplying. There are also wild peacocks and wild chickens here.

I called the fish and wildlife people, but they said they can't do anything about it. There ought to be someone to catch and put them in captivity. They're not native to Hawaii.

"We are aware of (the cockatoos) and working on the situation," said David Smith, Oahu district wildlife manager for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources. Because they are considered valuable, some people, with the department's authorization, have been trying to trap them. They're not easy to trap, however.

In the past, the department has "just shot animals like that in the wild and had to sustain quite a bit of negative publicity," he said. "We try (now) to resolve it in other ways." His staff first noticed a bunch of cockatoos about six months ago.

"I think someone may have let them go or they escaped," Smith said. "They seem to fly a circuit in Makiki Valley," ... more.

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