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Hauraki Gulf Spotted Shag\/Kawau tikitiki with GPS backpack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Spotted Shags\/Kawau tikitiki are largely a South Island species but there is a small population in the Hauraki Gulf and it is always exciting to see them. They are genetically unique from their South Island relatives and highly endangered. Some really fascinating GPS tracking data is emerging from GPS tracking studies being coordinated by Matt Rayner from the Auckland War Memorial Museum<\/a> that Chris Gaskin and Edin<\/a> has been involved with.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hauraki Gulf Spotted Shag\/Kawau tikitiki with GPS backpack. Clear band details could be easily read from the high resolution image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This work involves capturing the birds at sea and fitting them with small solar powered GPS backpacks that enable tracking and behavioural data to be collected and analysed. This article from NZ Geographic, The life and times of Shag 224796<\/a>, gives a fascinating, although depressing, account of the insight this work can give us into the details of the life and death of an individual bird and the threats they face.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hauraki Gulf Spotted Shag\/Kawau tikitiki with GPS backpack preparing to take flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

While stopping over at P\u016bkororkoro\/<\/a>Miranda<\/a> on our way north in November we made a trip to Thames in the hope of seeing and photographing the birds where they rest at that time of year. We were lucky that the tides were right for a good group of birds and I hoped I might locate one of the GPS tagged birds amongst them. I saw one which looked as though it may be sporting a harness but it took a lot of patience in the hot sun before it turned to show a GPS nestled between it’s wings. Fortunately I was able to get good detailed images including the band number to share back with Matt and Edin. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Hauraki Gulf Spotted Shag\/Kawau tikitiki with GPS backpack in flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This is one of those examples where none of these images are photographically exciting – horrible light and nothing unique in terms of behaviour – but are exciting documentary images that have some scientific value. For a banded bird a GPS tagged image would be a useful data point but for a GPS tracked bird the GPS location from the bird’s tag is more accurate than a tagged image of the camera location. The image though can provide some information regarding the apparent health of the bird so can be a useful adjunct. Personally it was just exciting to find a bird that Matt, Chris and Edin had captured, banded and fitted with a GPS tracker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos with Nikon Z9 and Nikkor Z 800mm f6.3 VR S +1.4x teleconverter <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Basically all the places I have been out on the water, apart from Kaikoura\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "birds"","block_context":{"text":"birds","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/category\/birds"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fluttering Shearwater (Puffinus gravida)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FlutteringShearwater-DSC_8091-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FlutteringShearwater-DSC_8091-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FlutteringShearwater-DSC_8091-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/FlutteringShearwater-DSC_8091-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9690,"url":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/9690","url_meta":{"origin":17846,"position":4},"title":"Buller’s Shearwater","author":"tony","date":"January 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Buller\u2019s Shearwater (Puffinus bulleri) is a large\/medium endemic seabird that breeds only at the Poor Knights Islands off the eastern coast of Northland New Zealand. They have a long slender, hooked beak typical of shearwaters and are significantly larger than the Fluttering Shearwaters we looked at last week. They are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "birds"","block_context":{"text":"birds","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/category\/birds"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BullersShearwater-D5C_4688-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BullersShearwater-D5C_4688-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BullersShearwater-D5C_4688-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BullersShearwater-D5C_4688-web.jpg?fit=960%2C640&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9746,"url":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/9746","url_meta":{"origin":17846,"position":5},"title":"Seabirds of the Hauraki Gulf reference resources","author":"tony","date":"March 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 These resources are useful for those with an interest in improving their knowledge and understanding of the seabirds of the Hauraki Gulf. Despite being on the doorstep of New Zealand's largest city, seabirds of the Hauraki Gulf are largely out of sight and so out of mind. 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