The Oregon Zoo in Portland is well-known for its California condor recovery efforts, but now it’s working to save an even rarer bird: the sihek (Guam kingfisher), extinct in the wild for nearly 40 years but poised to make a comeback.
Three of these small, brightly colored birds have been thriving in the zoo’s Vollum Aviary since 2024. The siheks at the zoo are all males, and housing them together is a new approach —…