Fieldwork week 1 day 5
Location: Hina Hina Cove, Catlins Date: 10/19/2018 What a place! Besides the very long and a bit challenging walk through private paddocks and over a bumpy, not greatly maintained dirt road, it was a...
Monthly Archive: October 2018
Fieldwork week 1 day 4
Location: Nugget Point, Catlins Date: 10/18/2018 Exhaustion took over so blog posts have been stalled for a few days. But back to it! Our 4th day (Thursday) started with a quick breakfast. We we...
Fieldwork week 1 day 3
Location: Owaka Head and Jack’s Bay, Catlins Date: 10/17/2018 Cereal and tea for breakfast. We left the accommodations at 8:45 and traveled by two yutes (trucks) near to the site from the day before,...
Fieldwork week 1 day 2
Location: Penguin Bay, Catlins Date: 10/16/2018 Off we go! After eggs and bacon for breakfast, we left the accommodations at 9:30am. 2 4wd trucks took us to Penguin Bay. The roads are very windy...
Fieldwork trip 1 day 1
Location: Catlins Date: 10/15/2018 The goal of the week: count penguin nests at 4-5 different sites, including scanning for transponders to ID birds, counting eggs, GPS locate each nest, and deploy a few GPS...
The Duck Conundrum
I was spending time with my ducks in the Dunedin Botanical Garden the other afternoon (along with some hungry pigeons, red-billed gulls, and chaffinches), and I finally decided to answer the question that has...