Education Ranger, Lucy, took a couple of trips up to St Canice’s School in Westport this term, to join them as they started their penguin project. A visit from penguin detection dog Mena started their journey off and then a classroom session from Education Ranger, Lucy, to learn more about blue penguins and their threats. […]
Catherine reports on the latest Fiordland crested penguin / tawaki news from Gorge River: “Despite the late, shaky start with some lack of egg-laying, the chicks that made it seem to be doing really well. Yesterday I saw one moving down the creek with its parent, probably ready to leave. As I couldn’t get up […]
Chair and Tawaki Ranger, Robin Long, is out on an expedition to the Antipodes Islands with the Tawaki Project currently. Follow the team’s journey here: https://www.facebook.com/TawakiProject Try to spot the Robin, whilst conducting ground counts of Erect-crested penguin nests on Proclamation Island, Bounty Islands. […]
The West Coast Penguin Trust has maintained an active interest in the Ōkārito kororā colony since it was first surveyed in 2008 and has resurveyed the colony every few years since then. In late October Linden resurveyed the colony for the first time since 2018. Unlike most kororā colonies on the West Coast, the penguins […]
After our very successful trip to the beach a few weeks ago, where the students trained their Penguin Ranger skills, to be able to “Stop, Look, Listen, Freeze” when searching for penguins, Hokitika Primary’s Rūma Piwakawaka, year 2 class played a session of What’s in the box with Education Ranger, Lucy Waller, last week, to […]
Education Ranger, Lucy Waller, joined Hokitika Primary School Ruma (room) Piwakawaka with teachers Maria and Caitlin for a field trip to the beach last week. We explored all the tracks and things to see at the beach and were lucky enough to find fresh penguin tracks leading right into their class planting site! The students […]
Rūma Piwakawaka year 2 class create their very own classroom penguin habitat. Having spent the year learning about penguins using the Penguins and Other Seabirds resource book, they were ready for their own colony! We will all meet in Term 4 for a planting day at the beach to help create more habitat for […]
Penguin Ranger, Luisa, shows us how tricky burrow scoping can be and the little nooks and tight squeezes blue penguins will find fir their safe burrows. There are certain things Luisa will look for, when searching for penguin nests. Can you see the debris on the ground? The flies buzzing around? This is often a […]
A dream for years, the seed of the idea germinated 30 months ago and today we launched the magnificent “Blue Penguins and Other Seabirds” education resource. […]
