Weka reserve on the East Coast
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—Warner Ovenden,
Gisborne Forest and Bird is caring for a colony of weka released on part of the H.B Williams Turihaua estate. Eleven birds, raised by Andy Bassett from the Department of Conservation and Basil Graeme of Tauranga, have found a new home in a coastal reserve set aside by a local environmentalist, Bill Williams. Some birds are wearing tracking devices and are regularly checked. Local Forest and Bird members monitor the 16-hectare reserve on a weekly basis, filling water and supplementary feeding stations. Most of their work, however, involves pest control with many rats, a feral cat and one stoat caught to date.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 294, 1 November 1999, Page 43
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