- 1. Waterfowl
- (Nicepage)
- ... / Pāteke The brown teal/pāteke is a small dabbling duck endemic to New Zealand. They are the rarest waterfowl on the mainland. learn more ...
- Created on 18 October 2024
- 2. Wetlands
- (Nicepage)
- ... Breeding and release Pateke (Brown Teal) Research and breeding ...
- Created on 21 September 2024
- 3. Wairo Project
- (Nicepage)
- ... Pateke Survival Guide Replanting a Wairarapa Wetland (Radio NZ) ...
- Created on 20 September 2024
- 4. Home page
- (Nicepage)
- ... two rarest Waterfowl species in the world. The Whio and the Pateke are struggling for their survival. Support Read more ...
- Created on 16 September 2024
- 5. A long road that doesn’t have a turn in it
- (Issue 181)
- ... an 8.3ha wetland habitat with half-a-dozen ponds and enclosures for native wildlife on Russell’s farm at Lagmhor, near Westerfield, southwest of Ashburton. Among the birds he breeds are brown teal/pāteke ...
- Created on 11 August 2021
- 6. A pond for pateke
- (Issue 180)
- ... required before translocation of pāteke could be considered and the first contingent of 20 pāteke was released in 2015, with a survival rate of 80 per cent, leading to another release of 80 birds in 2016. ...
- Created on 28 May 2021
- 7. From the President
- (Issue 180)
- ... has made with the Te Henga wetland in Auckland, DUNZ has been able to create a new wetland specifically with pāteke in mind at Te Henga. This really has gone a full circle – a lot of the pāteke originally ...
- Created on 28 May 2021
- 8. Mission impossible
- (Issue 179)
- ... gannets have been nesting there for several years now. Sandy says there are plans to translocate saddlebacks and giant weta. He has also been involved in translocating pāteke to the wetland and ...
- Created on 24 November 2020
- 9. Report on Operation Pateke (Brown Teal)
- (Issue 29)
- Mr F.N. Hayes outlined the year's highlights - among them the first official recording of captive reared Brown Teal in the wild on the mainland; and the outstanding figure of 101 birds reared to ...
- Created on 01 April 2020
- 10. Good neighbours
- (Issue 178)
- ... of understanding with the Departmentof Conservation who has requestedthat the trust currently focus on fivebird species – whio (blue duck), pateke (brown teal), black stilt (kaki), orangefronted kakariki ...
- Created on 13 March 2020
- 11. World Wetlands Day events
- (Issue 178)
- ... in Te Atatu on 1 February and Matuku Reserve Trust in West Auckland had an open day to show off its wetland restoration and give the public a chance to see pateke. In Wellington, Zealandia ...
- Created on 13 March 2020
- 12. Land of the First Light
- (Issue 178)
- For this year’s annual conference and AGM, Ducks Unlimited members will head east to Gisborne, land of the first light. The venue for the conference, being held on 31 July and 1 August, will ...
- Created on 12 March 2020
- 13. Pateke numbers improving
- (Issue 177)
- The brown teal (pāteke) is one of three endemic teal to New Zealand and the only one to fly. Both the Auckland Island and Campbell Island teal are flightless. Mainly nocturnal and half the ...
- Created on 09 November 2019
- 14. Winding back the years to 1976
- (Issue 177)
- ... ‘Operation Pateke’ has attracted much attention and we are delighted with our progress – 1976/77 promises to be a great year for the Brown Teal. As a fundraising project, our T-shirt ...
- Created on 21 October 2019
- 15. AGM 2013 Minutes
- (Issue 156)
- ... that without Jim it all wouldn’t happen. Pateke: Full report tabled Opuatia Report: John Bishop - This project is in abeyance. General Business: Received an email regarding DUCs 75th anniversary ...
- Created on 15 September 2019
- 16. Largest wetland in Auckland area - Te Henga
- (Issue 157)
- Proposed predator control is vital for Habitat Te Henga and for the reintroduction and survival of many birds including pateke. John Sumich , Chair, Habitat Te Henga puts the case. Matuku, Forest ...
- Created on 27 August 2019
- 17. Pateke doing well
- (Issue 158)
- Pateke Spotter: On the October 5 last year, Wayne Watson counted 32 Pateke at Whananaki, on Northland’s east coast - just north of Whangarei. DU released Pateke at Whananaki in the 1980s and while ...
- Created on 27 August 2019
- 18. Wetland Care
- (Issue 158)
- ... Tutukaka Landcare Coalition Tawharanui Open Sanctuary Society Inc. Ducks Unlimited Operation Pateke Port Charles release 2005 at Coromandel Henley Trust, Masterton Karori ...
- Created on 27 August 2019
- 19. Pateke success at Tawharanui
- (Issue 161)
- Pateke success at Tawharanui Tāwharanui Open Sanctuary reintroduced pateke between 2008 and 2010, with 148 captive reared ducklings released in total. An earlier release in the 90s failed due ...
- Created on 22 July 2019
- 20. To save Pateke
- (Issue 161)
- To save Pateke Knowledge, care and endurance Positive aspects of the recovery programme The release of captive reared Pateke by Ducks Unlimited (NZ) in the Northland area between 1980-1992 ...
- Created on 22 July 2019