The Tawaki Project field season 2016 is under wraps. At least the part where we crawl through the bush trying to find tawaki nests and recover data loggers from penguin volunteers. That doesn’t mean that there is no fresh data incoming. Because the satellite tags we deployed on tawaki to examine their at-sea movements before...
This Sunday, we went out to Jackson Head once more to have a look whether the setting of several stoat traps in the last active breeding area Popi’s Plaza made a difference for the surivival of the last few remaining tawaki chicks. When we left in mid-October there were three chicks large enough to be...
After an overnight stint in Harrison Cove the Milford Sound team we managed to deploy the last three loggers before the first light on females departing the breeding area; one of which was a transponder tagged bird that carried a GPS dive logger last year. So the day’s chores were completed before breakfast! As the...
[vrview img=”http://www.tawaki-project.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/20160917_360.jpg” width=”500″ height=”450″] We carried out nest searches and showed a camera team from NHNZ round Jackson Head. Nest numbers appear way down this year with lots of empty nests being guarded by one or two adults. It seems that many birds decided to give this season a miss and just hang out in...
The Tawaki Project featured in the Winter 2016 edition of the Forest & Bird Magazine. Here's a transcription...
Musings in the consequences of the predicted big NZ earthquake for tawaki...
Tawaki Cam - Penguins On Air. Help us to establish a live video stream to observe tawaki/Fiordland penguin in their rainforest habitat.
Bad timing and a face-off prevented naturalist Joseph Banks on Cook's first voyage from discovering tawaki
We finally have analysed last year's data and find remarkable differences between our study sites...
In which trail camera footage is shown that may be disturbing to some. Viewer discretion is advised.
