Brent Barrett
Parrots of New Zealand
Nov 15, 2011
New Zealand in all its unique glory and story book endemics has but seven parrot special to call its own. This may be a surprise to some who are familiar with Australia which contains 1/6th of the worlds parrot species. But what can I say, we are a small place with small dreams and compared to...
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Shifting Sands of Time
Sep 26, 2011
I would, in a perfect world, be writing every fortnight of exploits into the magical world of kea. But the earth doesn't really revolve like that does it. Instead I write from my bed hundreds of miles from wild kea about the outcomes of a very arduous year (for both the Kea and myself). I am on...
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Getting the word out there
Dec 15, 2010
Research is spread like the common cold and comes back in the form of funding and opportunity, learning from our experiences and educating people about the outcomes makes the difference, otherwise you just have a headache and desire to stay in bed. Since the media release, which I linked to the...
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Time for the truth about Kea nest success
Nov 16, 2010
We are just half way through our third season of kea nest monitoring in the lowland forest and already we have staggering results. The following link gives you a close up of our progress. Kea Research Youtube
In the first year of this work we found only two kea nests, one by accident (or fate) and...
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