The Nay Nays don't seem to fly anymore for some reason. I guess likely they flew south from Canada and some storm blew them all the way to Hawaii. The only place I've seen them in Hawaii was in 1989 when I was trying to walk down into the Crater of Haleakala to stay at one of the cabins there with friends who had reserved it for the night and were traveling across one be one to all the cabins in a sequence in the Haleakala Crater on Maui which is maybe 8000 feet in altitude. The top of the edge of the Crater is about 10,000 feet and sometimes it snows there.They have signs that say: "Nene crossing near where they tend to hang out on Haleakala Crater.
The nay nays have a different coloration than regular Canadian Snow Geese so they must have flown to Hawaii a really long time ago. But, because they don't fly they are vulnerable to things like dogs. So, I think they try to breed them in captivity now to keep them from going extinct.
Here is the caption to the above photo which was taken around 2012:
We saw a flock of nene’s (pron. nay-nays), the wild Hawaiin geese. Why they live up there at the volcano, I do not know, but there are “nene crossing” signs everywhere!
end partial quote from:
http://twispofate.com/2012/06/06/hawaii-travelogue/
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