Always good to know what your colleagues are! 🙂

Likely to be old age - nothing else clear from necropsy.

We aren’t able to vaccinate until HPAI is here, or very close to it. We don’t want to vaccinate too early to ensure optimal protection, and also due to restrictions on use of the vaccine.

Thanks Sally. We have had public displays of chicks when they were hand-reared on the mainland (including Invercargill in 2016 and 2019), although we're trying hard to keep as many in nests as possible. We only hand-rear when absolutely necessary.

Huge thanks to the team at Dunedin Wildlife Hospital for their wonderful care and dedication in doing all they could to save Kuihi.

The new transmitter draws less power, is better integrated with our data networks, can be turned on and off remotely, and can be adjusted more easily. Plus it's cheaper! It's part of our efforts to make #kakapo conservation less intensive and more efficient. #conservation #parrots #birds

Every #kakapo wears a transmitter, and changing them has been a huge job every year. But this will no longer be an annual job, thanks to #technology wizardry from the DOC Electronics Team who have made a new version. #conservation #conservationtech Pic: Bryony Hitchcock

Let me explain! #kakapo have been very intensively managed for the last 30 yrs - without this they’d be much closer to extinction. But as the population grows we can’t keep this up - and we want kākāpō to live more naturally. So we’re gradually stepping back with our interventions.

Both! More on this soon.... :-)