A proposal to establish a second breeding colony of Chatham Island Albatrosses Thalassarche eremita at a site near Point Gap, Tuku Farm using a chick translocation programme has been made. A Chatham Albatross feeds its chick on The Pyramid, photographed...
will be taken from the species’ only current breeding site on The Pyramid to a site on the privately-owned Tuku Farm near Point Gap on Chatham where they will be hand-fed until fledging ( click here to read details of the project plans). Over a period...
Writing in the ornithological journal Ibis , Sarah Gutowsky ( Department of Biology, Dalhousie University , Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) and colleagues report on at-sea tracking of both fledgling and adult Black-footed Albatrosses Phoebastria nigripes...
On 21 January 30 downy chicks were collected from The Pyramid and moved by boat to a privately-owned release site at Point Gap, on the south-west coast of Main Chatham, where artificial nests and dummy adults had been previously set up ( click here for...
2015 transfer have included weeding around the artificial nests used in the previous season at the translocation site at Point Gap, Tuku Farm on the south-west coast of Main Chatham and filling up beach ball bladders with water to weigh down the decoys....
chicks from the Pyramid breeding colony all fledged successfully after being artificially fed at the translocation site at Point Gap, on the south-west coast of Main Chatham ( click here ). In the current breeding season 40 chicks were transferred to...
Albatross Thalassarche eremita . A total of 110 chicks was moved from the Pyramid , the species’ sole breeding site, to Point Gap on the main Chatham Island in 2014 and 2105. All but six, affected by heat stress, have successfully fledged after hand...
Vulnerable Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita chicks was moved from the Pyramid , the species’ sole breeding site, to Point Gap on the main Chatham Island in 2014 and 2105 in an effort to establish a new breeding colony. The chicks were hand fed...
Vulnerable Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita chicks was moved from the Pyramid , the species’ sole breeding site, to Point Gap on the main Chatham Island in 2014 and 2105 in an effort to establish a new breeding colony. The chicks were hand fed on...
by Danny Burgin The bird was one of 50 chicks transferred from New Zealand’s Pyramid (the species’ sole breeding site) to Point Gap on the main Chatham Island back in February, part of a Chatham Island Taiko Trust project trying to establish a second...
another batch of Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita chicks from their sole breeding locality on the Pyramid to Point Gap in the Chatham Islands in an endeavour to establish a second colony. This will be the fourth year of the translocation project;...
, sole breeding site of New Zealand’s endemic Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita and transferring downy chicks to Point Gap on the Chatham Islands for hand-rearing until fledging. The project aims to create a second colony for the Vulnerable species...
chicks have been translocated by the Chatham Islands Taiko Trust from the Pyramid , the species’ sole breeding site, to Point Gap on the main Chatham Island over the last four years in an effort to establish a new breeding colony. The colour-banded...
endemic Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita chicks from their breeding colony on the Pyramid for hand rearing at Point Gap in the Chatham Islands by the Chatham Island Taiko Trust commenced last month. As in the four previous years the chicks will be...
eremita , translocated as chicks from the Pyramid , sole breeding site for the species, have commenced fledging from the Point Gap translocation site on New Zealand’s Chatham Islands. During a windy period ( view video ) this week, the first four...
chicks has been translocated by the Chatham Islands Taiko Trust from the Pyramid , the species’ sole breeding site, to Point Gap on the main Chatham Island over the last five years in an effort to establish a new breeding colony. The colour-banded...
