Across
- 2. Comes back to the same beach it hatched on, decades later
- 4. Unlike most owls, this one prefers the daytime shift
- 5. Tougher than most: this honeycreeper survives where others don't
- 8. To many Hawaiians, this predator is an ancestor, not just a fish
- 9. It purrs, it's Hawaiian for cat
- 11. Feral fowl that crows loudly across Kauaʻi neighborhoods
- 12. Reef hider with a toothy grin
- 14. Man's best friend, Hawaiian style
- 15. Winter visitor that breaches off Maui's coast
- 17. "Curved bill, scarlet feathers, sips nectar" — this bird, in a word
- 19. Hawaii's state bird, a cousin of the Canada goose
- 20. Goes into the imu whole for a lūʻau
- 23. Old-time canoe builders watched this bird for good or bad omens
- 25. Critically endangered corvid, extinct in the wild until reintroduction efforts
- 26. Ranch animal introduced by paniolo cowboys
Down
- 1. Hawaii's only native land mammal comes out at dusk
- 3. Shore anglers' trophy catch
- 5. Big Island exclusive: a hawk once reserved for royalty
- 6. Horned invasive grazer roaming dry Hawaiian slopes
- 7. Crimson flitter among the 'ōhi'a blossoms
- 10. Lizard or gecko — also a shape-shifting spirit in Hawaiian legend
- 13. Eight arms, zero bones, master of disguise
- 14. ___ bird: seabird whose feathers once adorned royal capes
- 16. Woolly grazer, less common than its horned cousin in Hawaii
- 18. Orange rarity nesting in Big Island tree cavities
- 19. Wake-rider of the sea
- 21. Rodent stowaway that arrived on early voyaging canoes
- 22. Introduced predator brought to control rats, now a pest itself
- 24. Cattle, raised on Big Island ranches like Parker Ranch