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2014/05/15 The Amazing Mottled Petrel! Whenua Hou is an island treasure, and the key to the survival of more than just the Kakapo. There are many conservation studies based on this tiny speck of land, and one of the most amazing is the study and translocation of the Mottled Petrel.
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2014/05/14 Maoris and the Kakapo: Iwi Perspective 
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2014/05/14 Taogna Taogna was in trouble.
Taonga was hatched in 2011. A female kakapo chick is very valuable to the future of the kakapo as a species. As a three-year old chick, she was routinely monitored via her transmitter backpack and various weighing stations. A loss of weight was noted, and rangers were sent out to bring her back.
At the headquarters, she was examined and found to be severely underweright and in poor body condition. She was palced in the care facility, and a series of diagnostic tests were collected.
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2014/05/14 Chick Sketches Here are a few sketches of Lisa 1 and Rakiura 2, taken from journal entries:
where it all begins
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2014/05/14 Beautiful Feathers! The kakapo is such a unique parrot. There are so many attributes that distinguish this species from all others. The lovely plumage is the first thing to be noticed.
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2014/04/30 Other Inhabitants of Whenua Hou Kakapo are the largest non-human terrestrial denizens of lovely Whenua Hou. But they have many interesting neighbors.
Prior to humans, birds were the dominant vertebrates on the New Zealand Continent. The only mammals, some small bats, were tiny in comparison to the giant moas and eagles that roamed the landscape. Kakapos were the most numerous parrot in the land, when humans arrived.
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2014/04/30 The Whenua Hou Ecosystem Whenua Hou is the island home to the Kakapo. It was originally unhihabited, until the local Maori on the mainland gave the island to Maori-European couples to settle (and presumably to keep them separate and out of trouble). Sealing was the main interest, and life was rugged. Eventually the sealing trade diminished and the population of humans declined.
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2014/04/30 The story of Lisa1
What an extrodinary story!
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