- 41. Breeding success continues at Mt Bruce Pukaha
- (Issue 167)
- Breeding success continues at Mt Bruce Pukaha Shore Plover: 26 chicks were raised with some released at Waikawa and some at Motutapu. Four remain at Pukaha to continue with the breeding programme. Pateke: ...
- Created on 22 February 2018
- 42. Habitat Te Henga
- (Issue 167)
- As the end of the year approached, the Pateke at te Henga were still holding their own and week after week 17 birds were being detected, that is an 85 percent survival. Accordingly, the Pateke Recovery ...
- Created on 22 February 2018
- 43. AGM 2015 - minutes
- (Issue 167)
- ... project every 5 years - need to look to start a new one. Pateke: Mike Camm (no report). Whio: Peter Russell (Full report tabled). Membership Report: Jan Abel. 78 percent memberships renewed slightly ...
- Created on 22 February 2018
- 44. Pateke counts
- (Issue 168)
- A little old but of interest to those who care about Pateke. We will obviously have to extend our daytime surveys further up into the forest in future. I have seen Pateke way up on the open hills in ...
- Created on 16 February 2018
- 45. Free flight aviary at Pukaha Mt Bruce
- (Issue 168)
- At Pukaha Mt Bruce staff have been delighted with the way the birds have settled into their new home in the free flight aviary. The whio and pateke are loving their new areas and are not difficult to spot. ...
- Created on 16 February 2018
- 46. Makutu Link is taking off
- (Issue 169)
- ... with the development of the Habitat Te Henga project and its effective predator control, leading to pateke releases over the last two years. The forested portion was seen as the last link in the ecological ...
- Created on 07 February 2018
- 47. MB100 – a milestone for Pukaha
- (Issue 171)
- ... the 100 milestone hatch, Pukaha held a Kids Go Free day in March when MB100 was having one of its first feeds at 12 noon. Pateke – clutch No. 3 More conservation breeding success with the hatch ...
- Created on 26 December 2017
- 48. Shore Plover breeding success at Pukaha Mount Bruce
- (Issue 173)
- ... the staff and wider conservation efforts. In another success for the breeding programme, there were also over 10 pateke (brown teal) bred and hatched at the centre in the last breeding season. The ...
- Created on 12 November 2017
- 49. Musings from the Marsh – Habitat te Henga
- (Issue 173)
- ... white also with heketara and clematis splashing through the canopy. Making my way quietly to the oxbow where I was hoping to see the [almost] resident pair of Pateke I was quite satisfied to instead ...
- Created on 12 November 2017
- 50. New hatchings at Pukaha Mount Bruce
- (Issue 173)
- September 2017: Pukaha Mt Bruce Since staff at Pukaha last caught up, the Pateke pair now have six ducklings in their care. The Whio, that live in their free flight aviary have also been sitting ...
- Created on 12 November 2017
- 51. Spring Has Sprung
- (Issue 173)
- ... North Island ducklings hatched soon after. Meanwhile five brown teal/pateke pairs have hatched ducklings and more will be on the way. ICWT’s reptiles are becoming more active with the warming weather, ...
- Created on 12 November 2017
- 52. QSM for DUs first president Ian Pirani
- (Issue 173)
- ... until 1980. During that time Ian and his wife Dawn initiated a Pateke breeding programme and nesting boxes for Grey Teal throughout NZ. Ian and his wife Dawn established the largest water fowl collection ...
- Created on 09 November 2017
- 53. Wetland care New Zealand
- (Issue 172)
- ... Tutukaka Landcare Coalition Tawharanui Open Sanctuary Society Inc. Ducks Unlimited Operation Pateke Port Charles release 2005 at Coromandel Henley Trust, Masterton Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, Wellington ...
- Created on 31 October 2017
- 54. Shore Plover breeding success at Pukaha Mount Bruce
- (Issue 172)
- ... triumph for the staff and wider conservation efforts. In another success for the breeding programme, over 10 pateke (brown teal) were bred and hatched at the centre in the last breeding season. The ...
- Created on 31 October 2017