Forest & Bird’s Bat Survey Officer, Top of the South, Brian Lloyd Tasked with the job of surveying bat populations in the top of the South island, I have spent many summer days setting out bat detectors around the countryside in the hope that they pick up the high frequency echolocation (or clicks) that bats […]

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 […]

Guest Blogger:  Graeme Hill, Secretary, Campaign for the Grey Warbler 2008 (and Radio Live Host) 2007 was a landmark year for Gerygone igata, or the grey warbler, or the riroriro, or the Bird Of The Year, or the Coolest Bird in New Zealand. At long, long last the underbird got the recognition it deserved, and if […]