One from the archives! By the 1990s Chatham Island tūī had all but disappeared from the main island. Slightly different to their mainland counterparts, these songbirds had survived on nearby Pitt and Rangatira islands. So a local conservation group decided to try bring them back. In this episode from 2010, Alison Ballance joins the ‘tūī team’ tasked with moving 40 birds from Rangatira island back to the main island.
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In this episode:
00:00 – 02:30 Introduction and background info
02:30 – 12:14 Catching tūī on Rangatira Island
12:15 – 12:24 Team has caught 40 birds
12:25 – 24:46 Moving the birds to main Chatham Island
24:47 – 25:55 Update on the birds…
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