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- Month Long Farewell Event – Hoki Ora Atu Tītī /Fly Safe Hutton’s Shearwater
- Major Sponsorship Opportunity
- Light Disorientation
- Parrot Dog – RareBird Craft Beer Range
- Te Rae O Atiu/Kaikōura Peninsula Colony Report
- Threats
Hutton’s Shearwater Bibliography
November 5, 2015
An annotated bibliography documenting extensive research on Hutton’s shearwater.
Crash-landed Hutton’s shearwater fledglings and light pollution
October 21, 2015
Over 200 endangered Hutton’s shearwaters (Puffinus huttoni) fledglings downed by bright lights were rescued from roads in and around Kaikoura on New Zealand’s South Island during the 2014/15 breeding season. Following collection by volunteers the young birds were measured, weighed, banded and released to sea by the Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust and Albatross Encounter. When the fledglings depart their only two remaining mountain colonies in the Seaward Kaikoura Range inland of Kaikoura and head towards the ocean, they unfortunately become attracted and disorientated by the town’s street lights. Mitigation measures are currently underway.
See full article: http://www.acap.aq/en/news/latest-news/2075-crash-landed-hutton-s-shearwater-fledglings-get-rescued-from-the-effects-of-light-pollution-in-new-zealand-while-research-on-their-at-sea-movements-continues
Hutton’s shearwater research documents and journal papers
October 21, 2015
The Mystery Bird – Documentary
February 27, 2015
The Mystery Bird is a documentary film on the endangered Hutton’s shearwater produced by Claire Clements and Sean Giffin.
The Hutton’s shearwater was long known to Māori, providing a major sustainable source of protein to Ngāti Kuri in the area. The species was first officially described in 1912, and later there were anecdotal reports from high country farmers and hunters of ‘muttonbird’ burrows at high elevations in the Seaward Kaikōura Range, behind Kaikōura. In 1965, following on from these leads, Geoff Harrow found carcasses in the headwaters of the Kowhai River at altitudes between 1,200 and 1,800 m above sea level, that were confirmed as Hutton’s shearwaters. Extensive searching led to the confirmation of eight colonies, but only two remnant colonies remain today. At least ten colonies formerly existed in both the Seaward Kaikōura and Inland Kaikōura Ranges, and potentially further afield beyond these mountains.
DOC Funding helps Trust soar – Kaikoura Star – 16 July 2014
August 19, 2014
Download >> Grant helps Trust soar – Kaikoura Star
The Department of Conservation is to provide a grant of $45,000 over three years to support the Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust in appointing a Project Coordinator.