Kia ora koutou! Despite lockdown interrupting the kōkako census for a second year, after a 6 week break the Auckland Zoo team are masked up and back out in the field tracking down our kōkako. Getting up early pays off for those keen to hear kōkako. While the...
Image above: chick GM-RY, the first chick fledged this season by Ātaahua & Kapua. Photographer: Grant Capill. The 2020-21 season saw 6 new members of our kōkako whānau from our 6 monitored pairs, as well as unknown number of other chicks from our un-monitored...
An excerpt from our 2021 March newsletter: Aotearoa recently celebrated reaching 2000 breeding pairs!! From only 300 pairs in the 90’s, their threat status has been updated to recovering (though still at-risk). A note from Sam, who attended the event in Pureora (read...
