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ʻalae

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. n., Mudhen or Hawaiian gallinule (Gallinula chloropus sandvicensis 🌐), a black wading bird with red frontal plate; cry of this bird is believed a bad omen; some considered the ʻalae an ʻaumakua; endangered.

2. Same as ʻiwa, a fern.

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ʻAlae

Wahi ｜ Location, Place Names of Hawaiʻi (1974),
  • Land section, Honomū qd.; pit crater near Kīlauea Crater, Puna qd., Hawaiʻi, active in 1969 (Macdonald and Abbott 101).
  • Land sections and homesteads, Puʻuokali qd., Kula, Maui.
  • Peak (2,000 feet high), above Kalaupapa peninsula, Molokaʻi.

Literally, mudhen.

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ʻalae

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Mudhen or Hawaiian gallinule (Gallinula chloropus sandvi- censis), a black wading bird with red frontal plate. This birdʻs cry was considered a bad omen. Also called koki.

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