The Tawaki Project’s Fiordland season wrapped up in the current issue of the Advocate South (also known as Fiordland Advocate).
Category: News
"Studying New Zealand’s Forest Penguins"
The Tawaki Project featured in the Winter 2016 edition of the Forest & Bird Magazine. Here's a transcription...
Living on shaky ground
Musings in the consequences of the predicted big NZ earthquake for tawaki...
Field Report 2015 released
After a prolonged gestation period due to other penguin related activities the latest report has been released
Life after rain
The rain finally clears and we get proper nest checks done; Klemens Pütz joins our team
Swamped
Another day in paradise - if you are a fish, that is. And an air breathing, flying one at that
Damp deployments
Torrential rainfall almost undermined our efforts but we still managed to deploy two logger packages
To Invercargill
Off we go down South. Our team will travel down to Invercargill today to catch the first ferry to Stewart Island tomorrow. Next item on the list – underwater filming off tawaki off the Anglem coast.
The tale of river swimming penguins
Another cracker of a day on the West Coast. Have I ever experienced cloudless skies on the West Coast? Probably, but somehow I mainly remember the rain. Seems like this about to change as the forecasters on tele (an impressive TV set adorns one of the walls in my hotel room) only stick suns onto...
Arrival in Haast
So… here we are. On the West Coast. After a solid 5 hours drive I pulled over at the Haast Visitor centre to have a quick chat to Jac Amey from DOC. It turned out to be a nice and relaxed one-and-a-half hour cuppa and catch-up that was quite welcome. One bit of important news...
