The Robins' Return
fter an absence of 140 the North Island robin /toutouwai has been returned to Great Barrier Island. Thirty birds were translocated from Tiritiri Matangi Island, near Auckland, and released at Windy Hill on the southeastern coast of the island earlier this year. Robins were last recorded on Great Barrier in 1860. Organisers believe this could be a turning point for conservation on the island, being the first reintroduction of a regionally extinct species. (Others still missing from the island include bellbird,
saddleback, kokako, whitehead and rifleman. ) After five years of systematically removing pests from over 250 hectares of land, the Windy Hill Rosalie Bay Catchment Trust gained approval from the Department of Conservation to reintroduce the robins into an area where pest densities have been maintained at very low levels. The robin translocation was funded by the Biodiversity Condition Fund. Early assistance with the Trust’s work came from the J.S. Watson Trust which is administered by Forest and Bird.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 314, 1 November 2004, Page 44
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162The Robins' Return Forest and Bird, Issue 314, 1 November 2004, Page 44
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