The population of native flightless birds like the kakapo and kiwi plummeted. theSun theSundaily animals birds Kiwi NewZealand
This photo taken on April 12, 2023 shows a member of the Capital Kiwi Project team holding a male kiwi named Atarangi after changing out a transmitter placed on the bird’s leg before re-release into the wild on Tawa Hill, Terawhiti Station in Wellington. AFPPIX: New Zealand's treasured kiwi birds are shuffling around Wellington's verdant hills for the first time in a century, after a drive to eliminate invasive predators from the capital's surrounds.
Rats picked off snipe-rails and petrels, mice chewed through all the seeds and berries they could find, leaving little for native birds to peck on. One such group is The Capital Kiwi Project, a charitable trust backed by millions of dollars from government grants and private donations.“Ever since people came to New Zealand, we have had a special connection to the kiwi,“ founder and project leader Paul Ward told AFP.
The project laid a huge network of 4,500 traps over an area equivalent to nearly 43,000 football pitches on the hills surrounding Wellington. The traps have claimed 1,000 stoats so far. Ward said a hush came over the 400-strong crowd as they caught their first glimpse of a kiwi when the first bird was released.“The power of that moment was palpable,“ he said. “Our job is to bottle that and spread it across the hills of Wellington.”“Two months after we released the birds, we were ecstatic to discover they had gained weight,“ Ward said.
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