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Trip Report: In the shadow of The Haystack
3 March 2022
In early January 2022, scarcely a week before my scheduled departure back to France, I organised a tramp with Dad to Larrikin Creek Hut. This would likely be the last tramp in Aotearoa I would do for…
Adventures in Kākāpō Land
20 December 2021
Recently I was lucky to spend two weeks on Whenua Hou/Codfish Island, a forest-covered predator free nature reserve next to Rakiura/Stewart Island. About 14km^2 in size, with a high point of 250m, it…
A proposal for a new bird band exchange format
11 December 2019
The New Zealand Bird Band Text Exchange Format is a proposed format for simplifying bird band information exchange.
What powers the Kea Database?
23 June 2019
The Kea Database uses many different services and technologies—here's some insight on how it all works.
Kea featured on 'Our Changing World'
9 May 2019
Laura Young and I were fortunate to be featured in a recent episode of RNZ’s fantastic “Our Changing World” podcast, superbly produced by Alison Ballance. Have a listen to the podcast episode (below),…
Community conservation data in New Zealand
3 February 2018
What do New Zealand community conservation groups do with data? This research seeks to understand data practices, and suggest improvements.
Bird of the Year 2017
9 October 2017
Update: The kea won with over 7.3K votes. Thanks to everyone who voted!
Citizen science for biodiversity monitoring in New Zealand
3 September 2017
Citizen science, the collaborative collection of scientific data by the general public, is an increasingly relevant field in an age of modern technology. It presents an exciting opportunity, not only…
The Kea Database: a new citizen science project
3 August 2017
The Kea Database is the first citizen science project of its kind in NZ, allowing people to look up individual birds and record sightings.