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Trapping stoats, rats and possums on the Tutukaka Coast to bring back the kiwi and other taonga species. Read all the stories here.

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Oi (Grey Faced Petrel)

The grey-faced petrel is an-all dark oceanic seabird with a short but powerful deeply hooked beak. At sea, it is fast and graceful with a high soaring powerful flight on long narrow wings.

Grey-faced petrels breed around northern New Zealand, on islands as well as a few mainland headlands. The birds begin breeding in the middle of winter, but many chicks don’t fledge until the height of summer.

The grey-faced petrel is sometimes referred to as the northern muttonbird, and some iwi still exercise their rights to harvest the petrel chicks between mid-November and mid-December each year.

Grey-faced petrels are making a comeback on the Tutukaka Coast as the numbers of rats and other pests has decreased.

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Five New Kiwi Released – February 2023

Tutukaka’s wild kiwi population has been enriched with a further five “taonga manu kiwi” – treasured kiwi – after two special events. One of the five kiwi released, was the 200th kiwi to graduate [Read More]

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Five New Kiwi Released – February 2023

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