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Dan Hutchinson 09/07/2026 Dan Hutchinson 09/07/2026

Bird of the week

Conservationist Neville Parminter has kindly offered to profile some of the birds that he finds living in the Taupō area. This week he focuses on Dabchicks, or Poliocephalus rufopectus.

Dan Hutchinson 11/12/2025 Dan Hutchinson 11/12/2025

Tūrangi spared rooftop mayhem

Threatened black-billed gulls are again nesting on the rooftops in Tūrangi town centre, but the town shouldn't see a return of previous disruptions.

Dan Hutchinson 15/10/2025 Dan Hutchinson 15/10/2025

Shining a light on the cuckoo

Research is starting soon on the long-tailed cuckoo (koekoeā) in the central North Island.

Dan Hutchinson 03/07/2025 Dan Hutchinson 03/07/2025

A walk back in time

Today we walked in New Zealand’s largest mainland ecological island, an area protected by 47 kilometers of pest proof fencing situated on Maungatautari.

Dan Hutchinson 26/06/2025 Dan Hutchinson 26/06/2025

Bird is the word at this show

We couldn’t feature all the events going on over the next three weeks, but we couldn’t resist Taupō’s very own puppeteering, amateur ornithologist Jeffrey Addison.