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What a gentleman! Watch as this kiwi pair return to their burrow. You can see the female in front (much longer bill), followed by the male, who waits patiently for her to enter the burrow before following her in. This wild pair live within the Puketotara Landcare area in the Bay of Islands, where regular predator control and a community committed to exemplary dog control, keep them safe. (Video: Jane Hutchings, Puketotara Landcare).
Kiwi Coast supports 4 – 5 communities across the region to monitor a handful of kiwi remotely, via small leg-fitted radio transmitters. This generates crucial information on how well kiwi are doing across the region. 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 or if they have been predated.
Kiwi Coast also supports communities to translocate (‘release’) kiwi into pest controlled areas to foster new populations or boost an existing one. All kiwi released in Northland are 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.
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