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Young Tuhuru waking up and getting ready to start his night!

Atarau Sanctuary: working to protect and monitor Aotearoa’s native plants and animals, starting with great spotted kiwi/roroa.

We’re on the radio!

Claire Concannon from Radio New Zealand‘s Our Changing World spent a day in the field with us and Southern Lakes Sanctuary to find out about mohua conservation and acoustic monitoring. It was a fun day and the episode is available online – click to listen! Want to learn more? Visit the Southern Lakes Sanctuary website to find out more about their work, and use our visualisation tools to explore songs of mohua from Makarora.

Explore our song visualisation tools!

You can use our kiwi viz tools to have a look at where we detect different roroa in our Paparoa study area, and listen to different birds’ calls to hear their individually unique voices. You can also have a look at riroriro songs from different reserves around Ōtautahi/Christchurch. Like many songbirds, riroriro/grey warblers sound a bit different from place to place!  Or check out the songs of mohua from Makarora.

See what the kiwi have been up to!

Sneak a peek at their latest activities…

Ōhonu

Ōhonu is the youngest roroa in the crèche for the 2020-2021 season. More about Ōhonu…

 

Rehutai

Rehutai was named in honour of the winning America’s Cup team. More about Rehutai…

 

Tekimoka

Tekimoka is super chatty! More about Tekimoka…

 

Kaimata

Our first chick for 2020 checks out the camera. Read more about Kaimata…

 

George

A quick shake in the rain. More about George…

 

Royal

Digging in. More about Royal…

Fern and Tuke

Meet sanctuary graduates Tuke and Fern, who now live in the wild. More about Tuke and Fern…

Kawakawa and Kakaho

Kawakawa and Kakaho both lived in the sanctuary when they were small. They are now paired up and living in the wild. More about Kawakawa and Kakaho…

Ruby and Potter

Ruby is a former sanctuary resident who met a wild male, Potter, after she left the crèche. More about Ruby and Potter…

Najima

Up close and personal. More about Najima…

Tuhuru

Waking up. More about Tuhuru…

Tarn

In and out. More about Tarn…

 

About Our Sanctuary

Atarau Sanctuary provides predator-free sanctuary for roroa raised through Paparoa Wildlife Trust’s Operation Nest Egg Program. Chicks are hatched at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve and then live in
the sanctuary until they are old enough to fend for themselves out in the ranges.

Image shows acoustic recorders being attached to a tree in the field.

Bioacoustic Monitoring

While kiwi are in our care, we observe and listen
to them through passive bioacoustic monitoring
to learn as much as we can. We are developing deep learning tools to improve acoustic monitoring methods for kiwi and other bird species.

Have a question?

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