I began working for the Department of Conservation (DOC) in 2007 and since then have worked in several roles and locations across the country. I first started working with hihi in 2012 when my partner and I became the resident rangers on Kapiti Island. My main role out here is to manage the Kapiti hihi population – basically this means organising supplementary feeding, banding birds to allow for monitoring and working with the Recovery Group to improve the management of the Kapiti population.
The original blog was posted Tuesday 8th March on Wellington NZ Bird Banders by Nick Fisentzidis and you can see that here In late February we were joined on the island by two representatives from Ngati Toa. DOC works in conjunction with Ngati Toa to manage Kapiti Island so it was great to be able […]
Radio interview available from the Radio New Zealand National at: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thiswayup/audio/201770281/birds-hihi-stitchbird Hugh Robertson from the Department of Conservation and author of the Field Guide to Birds of New Zealand is interviewed by Simon Morton on the This Way Up show, Radio New Zealand National. In this interview Hugh and Simon are visiting Zealandia in Wellington […]
