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| Giant wetas to be released on islands | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 3 2014, 12:09 PM (710 Views) | |
| Bitsy | Apr 9 2014, 12:48 AM Post #31 |
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Hear, hear!! |
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| Kahu | Apr 9 2014, 10:51 AM Post #32 |
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Posted Image Black Robins Source Link Donald Vincent Merton, QSM (22 February 1939 – 10 April 2011), was a New Zealand conservationist best known for saving the black robin from extinction.[1][2] He also discovered the lek breeding system of the kakapo.[3] *pioneered capture and translocation techniques as management tools in the rescue and recovery of endangered birds: In the early 1960s Merton led some of the first successful translocations for conservation purposes involving New Zealand birds – including establishment of a second population of the North Island saddleback, and averting extinction of the South Island saddleback. Techniques pioneered then are now an everyday part of threatened species management within NZ and beyond; *pioneered "close order management" (COM) as a means of averting extinction; sustaining in the wild; and/or facilitating recovery of critically endangered species. COM involves intensive management of free-living animals at the individual rather than population level. The concept and techniques were developed and applied with outstanding success during the rescue and recovery of the black robin which Merton led in the 1980s. Refined and adapted over the years, close order management techniques pioneered then are now an integral part of threatened species recovery programmes internationally.[5] *helped pioneer island biodiversity conservation and restoration techniques. For instance, in the early 1960s he and Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society of New Zealand volunteers eradicated Norway rats from four small islands in the Noises group, Hauraki Gulf. This was the first time that rats had been deliberately eradicated from a New Zealand island, and opened the way for ecological restoration of these – and many other islands both within New Zealand and beyond; Don Merton - Source Link |
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| Deleted User | Apr 9 2014, 01:01 PM Post #33 |
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Birds, I like..... I never knew there was such a thing as a black robin. Thanx! |
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| Kahu | Apr 9 2014, 01:49 PM Post #34 |
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Attached Bird pics on Kapiti Island. North Island Robin on Kapiti Kaka - Bush Parrot Kapiti Island Weka - Kapiti Island
Edited by Kahu, Apr 9 2014, 01:55 PM.
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| FuzzyO | Apr 9 2014, 02:04 PM Post #35 |
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That's quite the beak! |
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| Kahu | Apr 9 2014, 02:28 PM Post #36 |
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Same thought crossed my mind too ... especially when it was so close to my ear! Investigating DW's pack.
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| FuzzyO | Apr 9 2014, 02:35 PM Post #37 |
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Was that the same friendly fellow? |
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| Kahu | Apr 9 2014, 02:43 PM Post #38 |
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Yes, but he was more interested in the shiny zipper track on the pack. The wekas were even more inquisitive. People are a novelty in this environment! |
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| Deleted User | Apr 9 2014, 02:51 PM Post #39 |
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Were those kiwi birds in the last photo? I thought they never appeared in daylight? |
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| FuzzyO | Apr 9 2014, 03:09 PM Post #40 |
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Jeepers BJ, don't cha know a weka when you see one? laugh123 |
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| Deleted User | Apr 9 2014, 03:41 PM Post #41 |
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And just how many wekas and kiwis for comparison have YOU seen, Fuzzy? biggrin 04 At least I have seen an actual kiwi....at least we think we may have yeah199 |
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| Kahu | Apr 9 2014, 03:45 PM Post #42 |
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:dog_laught.gif: Posted Image On 1 May 2011 Manukura, little white kiwi, hatched. This was a delightful surprise to the rangers and team at Pukaha as she is the first white kiwi to hatch here and, as far as we know, the first white kiwi to hatch in captivity. Manukura - Source Link At Pukaha you aren't allowed flash photography .. using infra red, this is the result ... Manukura (The Red kiwi)
Edited by Kahu, Apr 9 2014, 04:16 PM.
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| Deleted User | Apr 9 2014, 04:49 PM Post #43 |
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Really confused as to why it says she is not an albino when both her parents have a recessive gene? |
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| Kahu | Apr 9 2014, 04:57 PM Post #44 |
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White kiwi genetics The North Island Brown Kiwi species has a dominant brown gene. Both the male and female must carry the recessive white gene to produce a white chick. There is a one-in-four chance of such a pair producing a white chick (options are BB = brown, Bw = brown, wB = brown, ww = white). If two white birds bred, they would only produce white chicks. The white chicks are in every way normal and just like any other kiwi. The only characteristic that differentiates them from other kiwi is their colour. The white feathers are not an absence of any colour pigmentation, they are pure white. Some species of kiwi – the Rowi and Tokoeka, are down to about 300 birds each. Little spotted kiwi have been extinct on the mainland for decades, but around 1500 are surviving in protected sanctuaries. Overall there are now about 70,000 kiwi left in New Zealand. 200 years ago, millions of kiwi lived across NZ. By the turn of the 21st century, there were less than 100,000. At the present rate of decline, the number will be around 63,500 by 2018. Source Link Edited by Kahu, Apr 9 2014, 05:30 PM.
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