We recorded a fantastic 203 nests in Tamatea/Dusky Sound. But we also came across empty nests with worrying signs...
October 14, 2022January 23, 2026
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Year: 2022
October 6, 2022January 23, 2026
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Tawaki numbers – increase or previous underestimate?
Tawaki - literally more than meets the eye...
September 30, 2022January 23, 2026
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Rātā has fallen
An August storm has obliterated a cluster of tawaki nests on East Shelter Island...
September 27, 2022January 23, 2026
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Field work 2022 underway
Tawaki nest checks in Doubtful Sound / Patea before heading south for a long planned survey...
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...
February 9, 2022January 23, 2026
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The moult is upon us
Feathers start falling...