21/11/2023
Episode Three: the tūturiwhatu 🪶
It’s finally here! In March I was able to join the DOC New Zealand Southern dotterel recovery team while they were banding birds in Awarua Bay (you may have seen these birds get some air time on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver with Forest and Bird’s Bird of the Century recently 👀)
The NZ Southern dotterel used to be found all over Te Waipounamu/the South Island of New Zealand, but now there are only 126 of these special birds left in the wild, and the recovery team is doing all they can to bring these birds back from the brink.
If you want to learn about how these small ‘shore birds’ breed on the mountaintops of Rakiura/Stewart Island or what it’s like trying to catch and band these wee cuties, dove right on into episode three of From the Brink 😎