This is the seabird team’s final blog from Raoul Island. It was back in May when Rochelle said it looked like the whole whale expedition idea was going to happen and there would be a ‘taxi ride’ to do seabird ► Read More…
DOC ranger
Kia ora from Raoul! Our whale work is going slowly but steadily, and we have now successfully deployed 16 satellite tags, collected 52 tissue samples, have photographed around 70 flukes and made eight recordings of whale song. The Department of Conservation ► Read More…
When I was last here in 2008 we saw Kermadec Petrels flying about Rayner Point where there is an acoustic attraction system set up, but we found no sign of their breeding on Raoul Island. These acoustic systems (there are ► Read More…
