Last September, we installed the second transponder gate (AWMS, or “Automated Wildlife Monitoring System”) at a tawaki cave breeding colony we call “The Hive.” Located in central Fiordland, this colony is ideal for automated monitoring like the system we’ve been running in Milford Sound since 2019: 25+ pairs breed together in a sea cave with...
TawakiCam (https://tawaki.cam) our long-anticipated live penguin camera that’s now streaming from the remote Antipodes Islands in the New Zealand subantarctic! After more than two and a half years of planning, testing and overcoming setbacks, TawakiCam went live on 17 January 2026 at 12 pm NZST, bringing audiences from around the world closer than ever to...
Seemingly s not so good year for young tawaki, but there are still some...
Musings on the the slo-mo action at a tawaki nest after dinner...
An unusually crowded caravan of tawaki at the Northern Landing on East Shelter Island...
A mini-crèche (by crested penguin standards) of tawaki chicks...
Stuck between a rock and some penguins...
In Doubtful Sound, moulting tawaki convert their underground colonies into winter wonderlands...
Why finding tawaki on any South Island beach can be perfectly normal...
A freshly fledged tawaki chick on Stewart Island is in no hurry to eyplore the big blue.
