After being absent for nearly 300 years, Hawaii’s state bird the nēnē goose has finally come home to roost in Oahu. The Associated Press was the first to break the news of this development. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a family of nēnē geese has taken up residence at the James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge. The parents arrived on their own, before settling in and hatching three chicks. Fish and Wildlife says that human intervention was not a factor in bringing the endemic birds back to the island. The nēnē goose was once omnipresent in Hawaii; scientists estimate that the population numbered 25,000 in 1778. But as the islands became colonized, the geese began to disappear. Currently, only 2,000 nēnēs remain in the wild. The birds can be found in small numbers on Kauai, Maui, and Molokai, though they’ve had the most success at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, where they were reintroduced in the ‘70s. That effort presented a variety of...