Welcome to HIHI Conservation.com, This website houses long term demographic data of hihi for our research team and provides an up to date summary of research for hihi managers. We hope others will also find hihi and our work interesting.

Research Publications

2009

Brekke, P., Dawson, D.A., Horsburgh, G.J. & Ewen, J.G. (2009) Characterization of microsatellite loci in the hihi Notiomystis cincta (Notiomystidae, Aves). Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 1255-1258.

Ewen, J.G., Thorogood, R., Brekke, P., Cassey, P., Karadas, F. & Armstrong, D.P. (2009) Maternally invested carotenoids compensate costly ectoparasitism in the hihi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 12798-12802.

Thorogood, R., Brunton, D., and Castro, I. (2009) Simple techniques for sexing nestling hihi (Notiomystis cincta) in the field. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 36: 115–121.

Low, M. and Pärt, T. (2009) Patterns of mortality for each life-history stage in a population of the endangered New Zealand stitchbird. Journal of Animal Ecology 78:761-771.

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