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Wellington Region Newsletter OSNZ—Birds New Zealand March 2016 THE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND (Inc) Wellington Region Newsletter OSNZ—Birds New Zealand March 2016 http://osnz.org.nz/ and http://notornis.osnz.org.nz/ Greetings The March newsletter is notable for the contributions from members and Nikki McArthur’s Regional Recorder’s Annual Report deserves special mention. The recording of observations is an important role of Birds New Zealand and provides a valuable and ever increasing database of birds. The Wellington / Wairarapa regions have been at the forefront of entering checklists on ebird with over 10,000 being submitted. Your observations are important and should be entered into ebird or submitted to the Regional Recorder. Four local newsletters are produced each year. Contributions for the newsletter are most welcome, especially those relating to birds in our region. Geoff de Lisle Regional Representative, OSNZ (Birds New Zealand), Wellington Upcoming Monthly Meetings some surprising similarities with human intelligence. This talk will discuss this research in an attempt to WHERE and WHEN convince you that we shouldn’t be so dismissive of the Meetings are held at Te Papa’s collections building, abilities of bird brains. 169 Tory Street. Go up the steps/ramp and across the carpark. There will be a short AGM prior to the talk. First Monday of the month, 7.45pm. May Meeting, Monday 2nd. An Indian [Ocean] summer th April Meeting, Monday 4 Conservation and research on Reunion, Crozet Understanding animal intelligence: should ‘bird- and Kerguelen Islands, and Mauritius brain’ be a compliment? Colin Miskelly, Curator, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Rachael Shaw, School of Biological Sciences, Te Papa Victoria University The 2016 NZ Bird Conference will be held during As humans, our mental abilities are often presumed to be unique within the animal kingdom. However, Queen’s Birthday weekend, 4-6 June. The deadline st recent studies with birds have challenged some for early bird registration is the 31 of March. commonly held assumptions about the evolution of There will be no Wellington OSNZ (Birds New Zealand) intelligence. In particular, experiments with members meeting in June. of the crow family suggest that these birds may in fact share some of our cognitive abilities. Closer to home, research on North Island robins has also revealed Report of Monthly Meetings February Meeting. The Young Birder Programme, Sharon Alderson. In this talk Sharon reviewed recent activities of the Young Birder Programme as well as future plans. In 2015 Sharon organised the youth camp on Matiu/Somes and Mana Islands, a trip to Pencarrow lakes and a behind the scene visit to the Te Papa collection which was hosted by Colin Miskelly. Further activities are planned for 2016. Members wishing to help with the Young Birder programme should contact Sharon. Top 10 pictures of a young birder, George Hobson. A good knowledge of birds is an essential requirement for taking excellent pictures of birds. George’s selection of 10 of his pictures demonstrated his ever increasing knowledge of birds and his skills as a photographer. Some of George’s pictures can be seen at the following website. https://500px.com/georgeh2 Progress in the establishment of brown kiwis in the Rimutaka Forest Park, Melody McLaughlin gave an excellent summary of the Rimutaka Forest Kiwi Project which began in 2008 with the first introduction of birds. Eight years later the kiwi population has reached a 100. Over the years a large amount of effort has gone into the ongoing battle with predators which has allowed successful breeding of kiwi. However, in 2014/15, a mast year, all 9 monitored chicks were lost. Kiwi aversion training for dogs is an important component of this conservation programme. Previously a considerable amount of effort has gone into the monitoring of kiwi. Currently the amount of monitoring has been reduced – presently 13 bird are being monitored. Bird Observations from Kapiti Island, Geoff de Lisle & Dallas Bishop. For over a year Dallas and Geoff have been volunteers on Kapiti Island. Their principal activity has been helping with the supplementary feeding programme of hihi. While on the island there has been lots of opportunities to observe and photograph birds. Examples include brown teal at Rangatira, close views of kokako, long-tailed cuckoo and takahe with a very young chick. March Meeting. Westland petrel demography and foraging – why this bird is a Wellington native. Susan Waugh, Senior Curator Sciences, Te Papa gave a summary of her recent studies on the Westland petrel. Te Papa studies on the Westland petrel extend over a period of 42 years and have revealed a small, annual growth (~2%) of bird numbers. Susan’s recent studies included the use of GPS tags (<25g) to track bird movements. Cook Strait, an area off the West Coast of the South Island and Haast have been identified as the major feeding areas for this bird. A side line to her studies has been documenting the effects of cyclone ITA (April 2014) on the Westland petrel colonies. High levels of damage were observed in 4 of the 6 colonies assessed. Landslips have destroyed significant areas of the breeding habitat. Ongoing studies will assess the impacts of the storm on breeding success and population numbers. Waugh SM et al. (2015) Storm damage to Westland petrel colonies in 2014 from cyclone Ita. Notornis 62:165- 168. Pelagic Birding Trip – Cook Strait The proposed Pelagic Birding trip on the 27th of February was cancelled due to adverse weather conditions – high winds and rough seas. A new date has been set for this trip – Sunday 15th of May. There are still a couple of places available for this trip. If you wish to come or want further information, please contact Geoff de Lisle, [email protected] Regional Representative: Geoff de Lisle (04) 527 0929 or [email protected] Regional Recorder: Nikki McArthur [email protected] Birds New Zealand Regional Roundup: Geoff de Lisle & Dallas Bishop (04) 527 0929 [email protected] Shag Survey - Geoff de Lisle Mist netting – new arrangements to be announced. Bird Snippets - Wellington behind Eastbourne. This bird is probably most likely to have travelled across the harbour from the large and steadily- expanding kaka population in Wellington City, so is Common tern Waikanae estuary, Wellington, Alan hopefully an early sign of things to come. Tennyson » Tue Dec 29, 2015 The part of the water catchment where this bird was seen There was a common tern with the white- frontend flock at is a 1300-ha block of unlogged, mature podocarp-broadleaf the Waikanae river mouth this evening. It was in non- forest in which Greater Wellington Regional council has breeding plumage moulting its outer primaries. been carrying out intensive predator control for the past BirdingNZ.net decade, so there should be a good chance that kaka will recolonise this habitat of their own accord provided enough NZ dotterel at Pencarrow Head, Wellington, Nikki birds make the trip across the harbour. BirdingNZ.net McArthur » Thu Jan 07, 2016 Jono Walter from Greater Wellington Regional Council has Dabchicks breeding at Queen Elizabeth Park, Kapiti Coast, reported spotting a NZ dotterel at Pencarrow Head near Nikki McArthur » Thu Jan 07, 2016 Wellington yesterday. This is the first record I know of for this site since one was reported in November 1998, Kim Broad from Greater Wellington Regional Council has although Joanna McVeagh spotted two at nearby Baring reported that a pair of dabchicks have bred on the pond at Head in Nov 2014. the Marines Wetland in Queen Elizabeth Park on the Kapiti Coast (McKay's Crossing) and currently have a couple of Joanna's also reported an influx of 4 birds at Riversdale young chicks in tow. They're showing well from the little Beach recently, so Jono's bird may be part of this same footbridge across the pond, so it might be a good 'event'. BirdingNZ.net opportunity for local photographers to get a few photos. BiridngNZ.net Island Bay, George Hobson » Sun Jan 10, 2016 Note; Also reported by Allan Munro and other members. Just been at Island Bay with my scope for a couple of hours with some nice finds... VOC family Eastbourne, Wellington, andyf » Sun Jan 11, 2015 Red-billed Gull X Black-backed Gull X I was surprised to see an adult variable oystercatcher and 3 VOC 2 chicks on rocks between Point Howard and Sorrento Bay Reef Heron 1 this afternoon. I've always assumed there's too much traffic House Sparrow X (vehicles, people, pets, predators) for birds to nest on Fluttering Shearwater 100-200 Eastbourne's beaches. WF Tern 4 I watched them for about 10 minutes. At one point the NZ White-capped Albatross 2 (both gave very nice views!) adult flew away to the next set of rocks, leaving the chicks Little Shag 1. BirdingNZ.net behind. They kept still for a while but then wandered around a little on their own. The adult returned after a few Kakariki at Khandallah Park, Olwen » Fri Jan 15, 2016 minutes with food. I hope they manage to fledge successfully and will keep an My daughter and her children saw a pair of Kakariki in eye out for them in the next few weeks. BirdingNZ.net Khandallah Park/Mt Kaukau today. I haven't seen a record of them having been seen here but its not far from Otari/Wilton Park. BirdingNZ.net Botanic Garden birds, SomesBirder » Tue Feb 02, 2016 Today I visited the Wellington Botanic Garden to investigate North Island kaka, Wainuiomata Water Collection Area, the current state of the avifauna there. Nikki McArthur » Thu Jan 14, 2016 Most notably, I saw four red-crowned parakeets and three kaka. Other endemics were some tui, a grey warbler, a This'll be of interest to Wellington-based birders only I fantail, and a kereru.
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