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Tūturuatu Telegraph: Turning the tide for a unique shore bird

Department of Conservation —  15/12/2021

The shore plover is described as a bird in urgent need of some PR. With just 250 individuals left in the wild it is one of the world’s rarest shore birds. A DOC-led recovery programme, aims to turn the tide on this bird’s fate…

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Interview with a critically threatened space suit model

Department of Conservation —  17/09/2020

Rocket Lab has just launched a fundraiser in support of the tūturuatu/shore plover – which takes the form of a pretty sweet Mission Patch featuring the endangered bird in outer space.

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Counting couples on the Chathams: tūturuatu breeding season

Department of Conservation —  28/11/2019

Every year as breeding season for the tūturuatu approaches, we head out to the remote Chatham Islands to do a census of the population. But what is the tūturuatu. Expert Rose Colleen went on the trip and gives us the goss.

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