The great spotted kiwi, also known as roa and roroa, is little known despite still being the common kiwi of high-country forest from about the Heaphy Track in northwest Nelson, south to the Paparoa Range and Arthurs Pass National Park. As their contribution to saving a national icon, students of Rangi Ruru Girls' School in Christchurch raised $1700 for radio transmitters so the secretive, nocturnal birds could be tracked in the forests of the Hurunui 'mainland island'. This year, DoC staff have banded 22 kiwi in the Hurunui North Branch to establish their territories, and with the hope of assessing their breeding SUCCESS.
GNOME HANNAH-BROWN
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Forest and Bird, Issue 298, 1 November 2000, Page 32
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105The great spotted kiwi, also known as roa and roroa, is little known despite still being the common kiwi of high-country forest from about the Heaphy Track in northwest Nelson, south to the Paparoa Range and Arthurs Pass National Park. As their contribution to saving a national icon, students of Rangi Ruru Girls' School in Christchurch raised $1700 for radio transmitters so the secretive, nocturnal birds could be tracked in the forests of the Hurunui 'mainland island'. This year, DoC staff have banded 22 kiwi in the Hurunui North Branch to establish their territories, and with the hope of assessing their breeding SUCCESS. GNOME HANNAH-BROWN Forest and Bird, Issue 298, 1 November 2000, Page 32
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