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South Taranaki Forest & Bird is an environmental organisation specialising in the protection and conservation of New Zealand's indigenous flora and fauna and unique wild life

Our kiwi handler Lance caught Hartley last weekend for his transmitter change and yearly health check. Hartley was in go...
02/04/2026

Our kiwi handler Lance caught Hartley last weekend for his transmitter change and yearly health check. Hartley was in good condition at 1.9 kg nice healthy bird. Lance would like to thank Lucie for her help, Lucie works for forest and bird at the Te Hoiere bat recovery project in the South Island. They have been tracking and monitoring bats this year so Lucie came up to help out with some kiwi work for close tracking practice. Hartley definitely put Lucie’s tracking skills to work as he was living on an over grown bank with the entrance near impossible for the human eye to see, after a long search Lance found the entrance and extraction was rather easy after that.

02/03/2026

Did you know Rotokare is home to a native bat?

The long-tailed pekapeka (bat) is found at Rotokare. Taranaki Regional Council have been monitoring this species for a while now, and for the last few years we assited them. This year we have not only placed bat monitors inside Rotokare's fence but all throughout the halo and beyond.

Long tailed bats are threatened due to predation, habitat loss and being outcompeted by mammalian pests. They are insectivorous feeding on all sorts of flying insects.

From the sacturary to South Taranaki Forest and Bird's Totara's and Collier block to other nearby bush fragments these microphones went out in hopes of detecting pekapeka calls. Their high frequecy eco-location calls are unable to be heard by most people so these highly sensitve microphones record them for us. The sound waves are captured in an image and we can then go through and look for the distictive signs of long tailed bats in the images.

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