View or download our Hutton’s shearwater information sheet here:
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).
Volunteers Needed
February 5, 2016
The Trust is preparing for its first annual ‘Hoki Ora Atu Tītī /Fly Safe Hutton’s Shearwater’ event, which will be held from Friday 4 March until Sunday 3 April 2016.
This month-long event will revolve around increasing awareness of Hutton’s shearwater fledglings crash landing around the Kaikoura township each breeding season, due to light disorientation and attraction.
The key element of Fly Safe will be to mitigate the effect of crash landings by saving as many birds as possible, in a coordinated volunteer effort. Any bird that crash lands is unable to take-off again and remains grounded. Crash landed birds therefore die from injury, stress, starvation, dehydration and predation.
All crash landed birds (dead or alive) will be collected for processing or release at the new ‘Hutton’s Hub’ located at the Kaikoura Department of Conservation office on Ludstone Street.
HELP!
The Trust need LOTS of volunteers for the Fly Safe event held in Kaikoura as of Friday 4 March 2016 – to collect as many crash landed Hutton’s shearwater fledglings around the township as possible.
Will you be in the area to help? If you live in Kaikoura, are planning to visit or pass through, or live in the Canterbury region – we want you. Crash landed birds will be collected 24/7 for a four week period from 4 March until 3 April 2016.
Volunteers are predominantly needed in the evenings and at night, on weekdays and weekends. Please contact us at: admin@huttonsshearwater.org.nz if you can assist. Thank you!
The Trust will organise a volunteer training day in late February prior to Fly Safe launching. Regular updates will be posted on our Facebook page, see: https://www.facebook.com/HuttonsShearwater/?ref=hl
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