After four years of planning the 2022 expedition to the subantarctic Bounty and Antipodes Islands is underway...
November 8, 2022May 15, 2023
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Author: Site admin (Thomas Mattern)
August 1, 2022August 1, 2022
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Helping out with Humboldts – Part 1
We are collaborating with colleagues in Chile to track Humboldt penguins...
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TawakiCAM
Establishing tawaki as part of Aotearoa is vital to advocate for the protection of the species and its environment...
March 29, 2022May 15, 2023
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Glide on forever, Kerry-Jayne
This morning we lost one of the greatest seabird scientists and Tawaki Trust founding trustee– Kerry-Jayne Wilson.
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Penguins at sea
Unlike all other crested penguin species that live and breed on remote offshore islands in the subantarctic region, Tawaki breed in a continental environment, that is, along the southwestern coastline of Aotearoa/New Zealand. And not only that… although Tawaki only occur along a roughly 400 km stretch of coast (as the crow flies) – from...
June 18, 2021June 18, 2021
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Below Piopiotahi
Witness the first successful camera deployment on a breeding tawaki from Milford Sound.
April 12, 2021January 23, 2026
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It is happening!
After three years, we finally got the research permits for the subantarctic...
February 23, 2021February 23, 2021
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Transponder gate is back
We managed to get the transponder gate back out this weekend...
October 7, 2020October 7, 2020
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Hidden colonies
We know that tawaki aren't easy to find. Where do you start looking for them?
April 8, 2020April 8, 2020
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Tom
The last tawaki to be fitted with satellite tags that also turned out to be a river penguin...