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• Kiwi Coast 10 Year Report
• Kiwi Link Year 7 Annual Report_July 2023
• Mid North HVA Year 5 Report_2023
• Piroa – Brynderwyns Landcare – Five Year Plan
• Restoring the Health of Russell State Forest – Warren Morunga
• Communities Saving Sensitive Species – Adam Willetts
• What’s Happening in the Deep South of Northland? – Waipu Kiwis
• Enviroschools: What Are Those Kids Doing? – Susan Karels

These are all real, wild kiwi, living freely in Northland where communities have taken up the challenge of sustained pest control and dedicated dog ownership so kiwi can roam safely.

Apart from the Puketotara Pair, each of the kiwi followed has a transmitter on its leg so we can track it from a distance using telemetry monitoring equipment. The transmitter sends out data that lets us know where the kiwi is located and things like how long s/he is active each night. We can also use this information to tell when a kiwi is nesting.

All kiwi released in Northland are also fitted with transponders. These are tiny microchips, each with its own unique ID code, that can be “read” by an electronic device to identify the  bird at anytime in the future.  For example, in the event of a road casualty, we can determine if its a kiwi born in the wild or one that has been released, and if so where it was released and how far it has traveled during its lifetime.  This is important information to help us figure out if kiwi are breeding and dispersing successfully in the wild.