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Latest from Hutton's Shearwater Charitable Trust

📰 Update · Jan 24

Surprise chick

📰 Update · Mar 10

2025 Fledging under way

📰 Update · Dec 15

First Chicks of the 2023-24 season

📰 Update · Jul 27

Te Rae o Atiu 2022-23 season report

📰 Update · Jan 16

Sad News – Our mighty Totara has fallen

📰 Update · Sep 13

Welcome home to our Titi

📰 Update · Apr 2

Farewell to our Titi / Hutton’s shearwater

📰 Update · Mar 16

We are back! :)

A Record 30 Hutton's Shearwater Chicks Survive in a Fenced Kaikoura Colony Built for the World's Only Alpine-Breeding Seabird

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🇳🇿 New Zealand

Hutton's shearwaters nest in burrows high in the Kaikoura mountains, only two natural colonies survive, so a trust moved chicks down to a predator-proof fence at sea level.

30chicksChicks surviving in the 2024/25 season (record)
90adult birdsAdult birds returned to the Te Rae o Atiu colony, 2024/25
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