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You are here: Home / Workshop Presentations / Communities Saving Sensitive Species – initial Grey Faced Petrel Breeding Success on the Northland Mainland.

Communities Saving Sensitive Species – initial Grey Faced Petrel Breeding Success on the Northland Mainland.

Kiwi Coast Trapping Workshop at Komanawa farm, Kaikanui Road, Opuawanga, Northland. May 20, 2018. Photo by Malcolm Pullman www.photosnz.co.nzSpeaker: Adam Willetts
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Ranger/Project Manager – Bream Head Conservation Trust

  • Species success through intensive control and monitoring.
  • Grey Faced Petrel breeding success took 3 years 2015 – 2018
  • Used acoustic equipment in 2015 to establish ground breeding calls and found a burrow site with 3 eggs. All eggs were predated by rodents
  • 2016 – intensified predator control around the site to be comparable to normal standard elsewhere in reserve, eggs hatched to chicks. All chicks predated by stoats.
  • 2017 – 1080 ground based operation – intensified trapping, monitoring at GFP site including 10 infrared cameras. Chicks survived to fledging and confirmed by DOC and sea bird experts.
  • Potentially first community-led project to have successfully fledged GFP without a predator proof fence on the mainland.
  • Advice – worth with students and volunteers – great source of help!
  • Monitor via simple tools like chew cards and tracking tunnels, acoustic recorders, pitfall traps
  • Start small then expand once successful

 

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