SPCA helps penguins with cat cages
A spate of adult yellow-eyed penguin deaths occurred on Otago Peninsula during late-January to mid-February. The explanation for this is unknown. Many chicks were also affected. About a dozen were found starving or losing weight because one or both of their parents had died. Penguin Place, a private conservation reserve on the peninsula, gives rehabilitation…
Penguin postmortems could strain budgets
View this article from the Otago Daily Times: http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/247056/penguin-postmortems-could-strain-budgets The cost of discovering what killed nearly 60 yellow-eyed penguins on Otago Peninsula could put pressure on tight conservation budgets. The threat to the colony appears to have eased in the past week. Only one dead penguin was discovered in that time by Department of Conservation,…
Feeding ophaned penguins a fulltime job
View this article from the Otago Daily Times: http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/245565/job-full-time Looking after the chicks orphaned by the mysterious deaths of adult yellow-eyed penguins on Otago Peninsula has become a full-time job. The chicks, who have lost one or both parents, are transported to the rehabilitation centre at Penguin Place, where they are fed and looked after…
Penguin deaths ‘devastating’
View this article from the Otago Daily Times: http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/245439/penguin-deaths-devastating The bodies of more than 40 endangered yellow-eyed penguins have been found on Otago Peninsula, raising concerns of a repeat of a ”mass mortality” event which wiped out 60% of peninsula breeding adults in 1990. Adult penguins have been found dead at 13 of the 15…
Auckland Island expedition – the radio show
Back in November 2012 a hardy bunch of keen volunteers joined Ranger Leith along with Jo Hiscock and others from the Department of Conservation for an expedition to the Auckland islands to survey yellow-eyed penguins. Alison Ballance was along helping with the counting, writing blogs and also recording material for a 25-minute radio story which…
Hands on experience with yellow-eyed penguins
Two veterinary students from Massey University, Keira Macfarlane and Liz Nelson, are gaining valuable experience dealing with New Zealand wildlife, which is part of their course. Between January 15 and 17, 2013, Keira and Liz helped Trust staff David McFarlane and Leith Thomson at Long Point, Cosgrove Creek and adjacent sites. They measured, weighed and…
