Kiwi Coast: The Latest Results, Data, Stats and Maps!

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Hi <<First Name>>,

This month’s newsletter is jam packed with all the latest results, data, stats and maps! Our 2021 Annual Report is hot off the press, providing a summary of progress and achievements across the Kiwi Coast over the last 12 months.

Excitingly, the results from the second Kiwi Listening Blitz shows that kiwi are returning to silent sites where communities are putting in the hard work around sustained pest control and improved dog control. Piroa-Brynderwyns Landcare also share one of the secrets of their success, and Backyard Kiwi have news worth shouting from the rooftops as their kiwi numbers soar to over 1000!

It is truly a privilege to collate and reflect these results back to all those involved. Many thanks for all you do – together we are making a huge difference.

Nga mihi nui
Ngaire, Andy and Lesley

Kiwi Coast 2021 Annual Report

Kiwi Coast Trust has now completed its 2021 Annual Report, which presents the key activities and achievements of the past 12 months.

Key highlights include:

187 entities are now linked in to Kiwi Coast, 181 of which are community, iwi and hapū-led projects.
Collectively, approximately 224,760 hectares are being managed.
Half a million animal pests have been trapped by groups and projects involved in the Kiwi Coast over the last eight years.
On average, over 1,800 animal pests are now trapped on the Kiwi Coast every week.
Seventy-six skill building workshops have now been held by Kiwi Coast, 21 of these over the last year alone.
18,367 people have attended Kiwi Coast supported events and workshops over the past eight years.
Two key pieces of long-term outcome monitoring – the five-yearly Kiwi Listening Blitz and Kākā and Korimako Surveys were successfully repeated.
The support of research and development, including the upgrade of the Kiwi Coast Listening app (now being used by 235 people) and the NZAT220 field trial, have contributed to improvements and efficiencies in pest control and outcome monitoring.

Read the full article on our website...

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Kiwi Listening Blitz #2. Map A.Duxfield

Kiwi Listening Blitz #2: Kiwi Returning to Silent Sites

Kiwi Coast’s second Kiwi Listening Blitz has been completed. The report out this week shows kiwi have returned to some Northland sites that were silent five years ago.

Kiwi Coast carries out a ‘Kiwi Listening Blitz’ using acoustic monitoring devices or Kiwi Listening Devices (KLDs) every five years. This monitoring is designed to track changes in the Northland brown kiwi population and distribution within the Kiwi Coast collective project area over time, with the expectation that kiwi numbers will increase and expand into new areas in response to sustained pest control and improved dog control.

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Agent 07 at his/her transmitter fitting. As a sub-adult it’s not yet clear whether this mystery bird is male or female.

Introducing Agent 07 from the West Coast

Introducing ‘Agent 07’ a monitored kiwi on Northland’s West Coast!
Dubbed ‘Agent 07’ after the number on the transmitter, the name has stuck after certain similarities to ‘007’ of James Bond fame quickly became apparent after the first two months of monitoring, such as being somewhat elusive, moving about under the cover of darkness, and being pretty good at eluding any followers!

Read our first update on Agent 07...
We hope to bring more stories over coming months.

Innes and Tania during the 2021 Kiwi Listening Survey.

Piroa-Brynderwyns Landcare: Keeping it Local Key to Success

Small-scale community-led conservation initiatives are essential for achieving Piroa Brynderwyns Landcare (PBL) group’s vision to see and hear kiwi throughout Piroa.

Landholders are helping to make this vision a reality by taking an active role in pest control in the region (and making friends along the way!).

For Innes and Tania Anderson and Jim Leslie, the choice to become involved with PBL was driven by their passion for New Zealand’s native birdlife and growing interest in kiwi regeneration.

“That first kiwi call gave us goose bumps and made us realise that the all the hard work and effort is so worth it” says Tania.

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Photo: Todd Hamilton

Over 1000 Kiwi at Whangarei Heads!!!

There are now over 1000 adult kiwi at the Whangarei Heads!!! After 20 years of community driven kiwi recovery work at the Whangarei Heads we now have a kiwi population of over 1000 – up from just 80 kiwi in 2001. This is a fantastic milestone thanks to a huge team effort.

A network of stoat traps supported by controlled pulses of toxin has controlled stoats allowing good chick survival.

Community engagement through public kiwi releases, kiwi monitoring and storytelling has led to good dog control dramatically dropping the loss of adult kiwi to dog kills.

Thanks to a great community supported by the NRC, Kiwi Coast, Department of Conservation, Kiwis for kiwi and many others. Special thanks to Ngati Hine for the gift of kiwi to supplement our remnant population that has now become a kiwi stronghold.

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