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News Eastbourne Forest Rangers (EFR) Little Penguin (Korora) Fluttering Shearwater Volunteers - Two Events In One! Nature Connection Videos End of Translocation Stage Pub Crawling Chick Fond Farewells The Big Clean-Up Be In To Win Video of Fluttering Shearwater Chick Exercising!! Visits to Makaro and Mokopuna Islands A Perfect Rainbow!! WOW, what a night!!! - December 2015 The chick has fledged - January 2016 Mutton birds on Matiu/Somes Island Gull Banding 2015 – 2016 Visit to Makaro Island – November 2016 Diving Petrel on Matiu/Somes Island 2016/17 fluttering shearwater breeding season ends
On 4 September 2016, a diving petrel was caught on the fluttering shearwater colony. They have not been recorded on Matiu/Somes Island before. The sound system playing fluttering shearwater calls each night also has a few diving petrel calls on it so this may have attracted this bird into the colony. It was caught again in October and banded so we will know in the future if it is seen again.
Diving petrels breed on other islands in Cook Strait including Trio, Brothers and Stephens islands. They are one of three species of seabirds successfully translocated to Mana Island. Maybe they are suitable for translocating to Matiu/Somes Island in the future!!