View or download our Hutton’s shearwater information sheet here:
Archives for March 2016
Only The Best For Kaikoura’s Special Seabird – Kaikoura Star
March 3, 2016
Kaikoura Star article 2 March 2016 – “Only The Best For Kaikoura’s Special Seabird”
Kaikoura Star – Hutton’s shearwater article
Hutton’s Hub opening – Friday 4 March 2016
March 3, 2016
Launching the Hoki Ora Atu Tītī /Fly Safe Hutton’s Shearwater event.
Join us at our Hutton’s Hub opening this Friday 4 March 2016, adjacent to the Department of Conservation office, 115 Ludstone Road, Kaikoura. 10am-4pm. All welcome!
The ‘Hutton’s Hub’ will serve as the drop-off point for Hutton’s shearwater fledglings crash landing around the Kaikoura township each March/April due to light disorientation.
Enjoy guest speakers, children’s activities, nibbles, Hutton’s displays, viewing of the Hutton’s Hub, and viewing a Hutton’s shearwater chick from the Kaikoura Peninsula colony!
Event posters for March-April 2016
March 3, 2016
View or download posters relating to our 2016 Hoki Ora Atu Tītī /Fly Safe Hutton’s Shearwater event:
Fly Safe – Public Presentations_Speaker Series
Hutton’s Shearwater – Critter Of The Week
March 1, 2016
Listen to the Department of Conservation’s Threatened Species Ambassador Nicola Toki talk about the endangered Hutton’s shearwater on Radio New Zealand’s ‘Critter Of The Week’ aired on 26 February 2016.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/201790941/critter-of-the-week-nicola-toki
Hutton’s shearwater crash landing log
March 1, 2016
Hoki Ora Atu Tītī /Fly Safe Hutton’s Shearwater event:
The Trust will be using Hutton’s Shearwater Rescue Logs for crash landed fledglings collected throughout the Kaikoura township.
If you find a Hutton’s shearwater during the Fly Safe month, please fill this log in if possible and deliver with each bird to the Hutton’s Hub. This data is needed for important light disorientation research by the University of Canterbury.
Logs will be available at the ‘Hutton’s Hub’ (adjacent to the Department of Conservation office on 115 Ludstone Road in Kaikoura), Kaikoura schools and Kaikoura District Council.
You can download the log here: FLYSAFE – Hutton’s Shearwater Rescue Log
Found a crash landed Hutton’s shearwater fledgling? If in doubt, call us!
March 1, 2016
HELP US SAVE HUTTON’S during our FLY SAFE event (4 March to 3 April 2016)!
Please collect any grounded bird you encounter, transport in a box and drop off as soon as possible at the ‘Hutton’s Hub’ adjacent to the Department of Conservation office on 115 Ludstone Road in Kaikōura. Birds will then be processed and released by the following morning.
If in doubt or you don’t know what to do, call us on 022 FLY HOME (022 359 4663).
