Fairy tern, Dotterel and Kōkako
By the van der Loos family While on holiday at Omaha over Christmas, we spent a lot of time at...
Black-backed gull banding
Families from Marlborough KCC joined local bird expert, Mike Bell, to help band black-backed gull chicks nesting on the Wairau...
Beyond KCC
By Ella (age 12) from KCC South Auckland On the very merry day of Sunday 27th August, South Auckland KCC...
A tax for tourists
By Katherine (age 12) from Christchurch Katherine in Nov 2017 The hardest thing about visiting New Zealand is deciding what...
Myrtle Rust Reporter App
By NatureWatch NZ Back in April, NatureWatchNZ brought you the sad news that myrtle rust had been found in Northland,...
Pāua, They’re Sticking Around
KCC YOUTH REPORT by Nixon The pāua was twisting on a rock above the tide. We were at Ward Beach,...
Fundraising at Brown’s Bay
Hi, I’m Betty, and I’m eight years old. I want to help save New Zealand native birds, so me and...
Penguin Box Challenge
This blog provides feedback on entries to our penguin box design challenge in issue 135 (winter 2017) of Wild Things...
Our human bar graph!
Rototuna Primary School made a human bar graph to show their preferences for Bird of the Year 2017! Look’s like...
Kākāpō for Bird of the Year!
By Eunie from Rototuna Primary School Did you know that there are less than 160 kākāpō in New Zealand? That’s...
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