Comments on: Happy anniversary to a plucky bird http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/11/20/happy-anniversary-to-a-plucky-bird/ hopping along the corridors of power Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:16:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: katie http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/11/20/happy-anniversary-to-a-plucky-bird/#comment-96745 katie Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:49:36 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=7783#comment-96745 Aren't we all lucky that they never made it into <i>Buller's Birds</i> in the 19th C, or else we'd be visiting Te Papa to ask special collections for a look at a stuffed one. For slightly less adventurous bird-lovers, Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in suburban Wellington has lovely free-living native birds and puts on evening sessions in the summer so you can hear the twilight birdcalls & experience the glowworms lighting up. Costs to get in, but if you keep an eye out, there are 'gold-coin' days every once in a while to encourage the locals to see what the tourists visit in droves. No Takahe, but lots of other lovely feathered friends.

Aren’t we all lucky that they never made it into Buller’s Birds in the 19th C, or else we’d be visiting Te Papa to ask special collections for a look at a stuffed one.

For slightly less adventurous bird-lovers, Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in suburban Wellington has lovely free-living native birds and puts on evening sessions in the summer so you can hear the twilight birdcalls & experience the glowworms lighting up. Costs to get in, but if you keep an eye out, there are ‘gold-coin’ days every once in a while to encourage the locals to see what the tourists visit in droves. No Takahe, but lots of other lovely feathered friends.

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]]> By: Denis Welch http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/11/20/happy-anniversary-to-a-plucky-bird/#comment-96572 Denis Welch Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:35:28 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=7783#comment-96572 Well remembered. A great date in history. In the first reports the bird was known only as the notornis. Only gradually, this being the 1940s, did it come to be universally called the takahe.

Well remembered. A great date in history. In the first reports the bird was known only as the notornis. Only gradually, this being the 1940s, did it come to be universally called the takahe.

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]]> By: frog http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/11/20/happy-anniversary-to-a-plucky-bird/#comment-96470 frog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:54:20 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=7783#comment-96470 Culling/shooting in the habitat of the takahe. There's an extensive hut and track network in there for the cullers. It's the only area of Fiordland mainland that is deer-culled by DOC I think, the rest is managed by commercial and recreational hunters (e.g. the Wapiti). Hardly any 1080 is used in Fiordland I think. Only the DOC staff and volunteers submit timesheets!
Culling/shooting in the habitat of the takahe. There’s an extensive hut and track network in there for the cullers. It’s the only area of Fiordland mainland that is deer-culled by DOC I think, the rest is managed by commercial and recreational hunters (e.g. the Wapiti). Hardly any 1080 is used in Fiordland I think. Only the DOC staff and volunteers submit timesheets!

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]]> By: kahikatea http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/11/20/happy-anniversary-to-a-plucky-bird/#comment-96468 kahikatea Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:45:47 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=7783#comment-96468 "The population declined to 118 in 1982, but with intensive management of deer (which devour its food supply) it began to slowly recover in its mountain stronghold." what sort of 'management' of deer? are we talking shooting? 1080? having weekly meetings with the deer and requiring them to submit timesheets to show where they've been grazing?

“The population declined to 118 in 1982, but with intensive management of deer (which devour its food supply) it began to slowly recover in its mountain stronghold.”

what sort of ‘management’ of deer? are we talking shooting? 1080? having weekly meetings with the deer and requiring them to submit timesheets to show where they’ve been grazing?

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]]> By: greenfly http://blog.greens.org.nz/2009/11/20/happy-anniversary-to-a-plucky-bird/#comment-96440 greenfly Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:10:28 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/?p=7783#comment-96440 Lake Orbell, in the Murchison Mountains is a beautiful place to visit but you need to have good thigh muscles to cope with the climb up from Lake Te Anau. We found a nest, with eggs. There are interesting and mysterious whakairo on a high cliff face near the top of the trail.
Lake Orbell, in the Murchison Mountains is a beautiful place to visit but you need to have good thigh muscles to cope with the climb up from Lake Te Anau. We found a nest, with eggs. There are interesting and mysterious whakairo on a high cliff face near the top of the trail.

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