Earlier this month, inside a retrofitted shipping container on Oahu’s north shore, the drone of a high-powered kitchen mixer and stench of fish punctuated the air. Robby Kohley, an avian ecologist sporting an albatross-embellished trucker hat, was macerating a slurry of squid, sardines, and salmon oil with a liquid electrolyte, calcium supplement, and multivitamin—all the nutrients a growing albatross chick needs. “I call myself a glorified bird janitor,” Kohley said when the Vitamix quieted. He’s understating his role, but his point is well taken. The biologist has spent his life hand-raising birds, starting with parrots in grade school, before transitioning to endangered Hawaiian species like the `Alalā (Hawaiian Crow), Hawaiian Petrel, Newell’s Shearwater, and now the Laysan Albatross. So he knows that most of the labor required to save a species—like prepping food and sterilizing equipment—is unglamorous. “It’s not as fun and interesting as feeding the...