Comments on: The Demise of Juan Carlos and his Feathered Friends

By: Jessica Gray

Jessica Gray — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:13:53 +0000

PLEASE Wellington motorists keep a lookout for these precious little blues, They are such treasures.

By: Wayne Turner

Wayne Turner — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:12:52 +0000

Thanks Jenny for directing readers to my short film “Penguins Cross”, on YouTube. If anyone would like a free DVD copy of the film, for educational purposes, please email a request to the email address at the end of the film. Kind regards, Wayne Turner.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:11:49 +0000

In hindsight, thinking about the idea of underpasses and how to protect animals, I remembered that when I was a kid I had the first in a whole number of family’s pet cats which lived for longer than one year. My family home was right beside a busy main road in the outskirts of Napier, and our family’s cats lasted one year each at most before being struck by cars whilst crossing to what were then fields (probably full of rodents!!)on the other side. But this one cat of mine - stone deaf by the way, lasted for four years. And the reason? He discovered a culvert that went under the road and which if he went through it, spat him out in those fields. So he didn’t have to take the traffic on. He could cross underneath that road!!

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:29:34 +0000

In today’s Herald (Sat 21 March) is an article about the Auckland Zoo being down to one single little blue penguin, after a series of mystery deaths (to the other five) in the last six months.
The last of the five penguins drowned - who’d have thought that a penguin might drown in a bucket of water in it’s enclosure? They say they’ll be seeking ‘replacement’ penguins from rescue centres - birds that had suffered an injury that restricted their ability to feed in the wild - once the new enclosure is finished, and also they’ve found the reason for the previous deaths and know how to prevent further deaths, I hope!!

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:32:38 +0000

Only a week or so ago a member wrote in to our branch about seeing what was probably a little blue penguin in a pond near a major bus depot on the North Shore of Auckland. It was gone the next day. Hopefully it caught a bus, and not the other way round!! But they surely do wander around the urban area…despite the traffic hurtling past. Success was gotten for planning of construction of a main highway through Auckland to take note of a resident population of dotterels a few years ago;how can we put the same pressure on planners to protect local Little Blues?

By: Tracy76

Tracy76 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:13:09 +0000

OMG that photo is so sad. The Places 4 Penguins programme looks really cool - hopefully it will mean not so many squashed penguins.

By: Biggles

Biggles — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:45:21 +0000

Poor little penguins. Bloody boy racers!