by shaun | Sep 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yellow-crowned parakeet (kakariki) chicks have been spotted on Mana Island, just seven months after 26 adult birds were transferred there from Te Kakaho Island in the Chetwode Island group, Malborough Sounds. Friends of Mana Island volunteers, who have been monitoring...
by shaun | Sep 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Fairy prions hatched in the Marlborough Sounds have been duped into believing Mana Island is their home. The first of 240 chicks transferred to the island from Takapourewa (Stephens Island) in the Marlborough Sounds over the past three years has returned, heralding...
by shaun | Sep 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Working stealthily both night and day, members of Friends of Mana Island (FOMI), Ngati Kuia, Ngati Toa and DOC staff captured 25 yellow crowned parakeets and 80 flax weevils from islands in the Marlborough Sounds to transfer to Mana Island. For three days in May they...
by shaun | Sep 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
A member of the parrot family, the yellow-crowned parakeet was once common on mainland New Zealand, but it is now mainly confined to predator-free islands and large tracts of forest on the mainland. Notable for its colourful bright green, red and yellow plumage, it...
by shaun | Sep 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
The transferring and releasing of the Fairy Prion specie to Mana Island: [ngg_images gallery_ids=”1″ display_type=”photocrati-nextgen_basic_thumbnails” gallery_width=”600″ gallery_height=”400″...
