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Mon, 16 Feb 2009 8:59 am – Posted by Ailsa Howard | 1 Comment
Guest blogger: Chairperson for the Kaikoura Branch, Ailsa Howard
While DOC has been busy crafting dummy sea-lions in an attempt to attract males ashore, the Kaikoura community along with the local DOC staff have been involved in a charade of our own: playing the call of the endangered Hutton’s shearwater through loud speakers, in bid to get them to return to their new breeding site.
Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:38 am – Posted by Tom | 1 Comment
Guest Blogger, Tom Marshall, Photographer
We’re constantly being reminded in New Zealand not to ‘drive tired’ and ‘take a break every two hours when travelling’, but next time you reach for that Red Bull or coffee hit on the highway, spare a thought for some of our feathered summer tourists.
Our Alaska-bound godwits, Photo Andrew Walmsley
Travelling the length of Aotearoa tip-to-tip would be an impressive feat for anyone at 1600km, but try doing nearly seven times that distance without so much as a pie and an L&P en-route, and you have the astonishing migration of the Bar-tailed Godwit.