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1st August 2010 - Hihi Lab Update
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1st April 2010 - Hihi Lab Update
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8th March 2010 - Hihi Lab Update
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28th February to 10th March 2010
Hihi on the move. 85 juvenile hihi have been caught on Tiritiri Matangi island with most sent to other populations. 37 birds to Mt Maungatautari, 30 birds to Kapiti island and 5 to Karori Wildlife Sanctuary.
13th to 18th September 2009
Pre-breeding population survey for hihi on Tiritiri Matangi Island. 176 birds were seen with over 70 of those being female. Sandra Soeder has joined the team and is running the field programme over this breeding season.
1st September 2009
John Ewen is presenting hihi research results this week at the European Congress for Conservation Biology meeting in Prague.
1st August 2009
Alienor Chauvenet has been awarded and AXA Research Fund PhD Fellowship. Her project will focus on demographic modelling of the Tiritiri Matangi hihi population. She will start in October and be based at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London
Monday 20th July 2009
Research update: work on costly parasitism by nest mites on hihi and the compensatory effects of carotenoids has been published by our team in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA this week. Have a read on the associated press releasehere.
14th - 15th April 2009
Hihi Recovery Group meeting held Out-In-The-Styx Cafe right at the base of Mt Maungatautari.
Friday 27th March 2009
Mixing it up, adding some diverse genes to Maungatautari
20 hihi were translocated from Little Barrier Island (Hauturu) to Maungatautari Ecological Island.
Monday 23rd March 2009
Another PhD Studentship for the hihi
Leila Walker has been awarded a NERC funded PhD studentship based at the University of Cambridge and will work on Tiritiri Matangi's hihi population.
Wednesday 11th March 2009
Research Funding Success
The Leverhulme Trust has awarded John Ewen £91 794 for a research project based on the Tiritiri Matangi hihi population.
Saturday 7th March 2009
Hihi arrive at Maungatautari
59 hihi successfully translocated from Tiritiri Matangi Island to Maungatautari Ecological Island. Watch the hihi release video here.
Sunday 22nd February 2009
218 hihi seen in post-breeding population survey on Tiritiri Matangi Island
Friday 20th February 2009
Tiritiri Matangi hihi post breeding season population census almost complete with 221 birds seen