Kākāpō action this week is about the chicks - all 94 of them.
I've just spent a week on Whenua Hou, recording with kākāpō rangers as they work day and night to ensure the chicks survive and thrive.
#kakapo #birds #conservation @digs.bsky.social
www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/wild...
Feeling grateful tonight, Nest CAM is back up PLUS we had digs.bsky.social do chick check AND he stayed after- generously sharing his #kākāpō knowledge with us. #NewZealand #Conservation & #kakapo benefit greatly from having people like him in our corner!
Someone asked a simple Facebook question about #kākāpō fertility. I answered with what can only be described as an unsolicited mini-thesis.
Have now escalated the situation further by turning the whole thing into a blog post.
A normal response was available to me.
(cam still down, can't you tell)
This is why it's great that rimu doesn't make a habit of fruiting every year so the birds can all recover some condition!
No sun, no charge, no cam.
Weather 1, webcam 0.
#Kākāpō #Kakapo #Wildlife #Birds #conservation #NewZealand
Really appreciate you posting the fridge picture for us (it helps me update my chick log!). It's also good for the 'cold turkey' withdrawals from no livecam right now!
Meanwhile, somewhere in a hollow tree on Whenua Hou, chunky feathered cam-hogging supervillians gather to hatch tonight's evil plan...
#kakapo2026 #kākāpō #conservation #Wildlife #NestCam #NewZealand #kikorangi #birds
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A female kakapo on a nest facing the camera, with a young chick in front of her. Credit: Andrew Digby
This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record:
- 256 eggs (252 in 2019)
- 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019)
- 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019).
It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds
#Kākāpō perspective: #Artemis II astronauts emerge through the hatch.
Crops empty.
Following heath checks they will be fitted with backpack transmitters, given names, & be officially added to the total population.
#kakapo #splashdown #NewZealand #conservation #science #crossoverhumour
Sorry... I love Artemis II as well but I can't unsee this in my mind!
...or shiny bonsly (just to provide something a little different than your usual perspective).
I see Conservation Biology - have you heard of kākāpō? If you miss your Artemis news, you may be interested in seeing the forefront of New Zealand conservation, 24/7 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDSW...
Shiny Bonsly vibes?
Anyone else getting shiny Bonsly vibes? 🤩
#Artemis II splashdown has happened…
anyone else getting shiny Bonsly vibes?
#splashdown #Pokēmon #Bonsly #NASA #Space #uncanny
(yes, I know... motion sickness, disorientation and 'less than dignified moments' are expected and common place after such activity).
perfect bullseye splashdown 🥳
three good looking parachutes :)
update! The spacecraft has already:
Survived peak heating 🔥
Re-established comms 📡
Successfully deployed parachutes 🪂
You are now watching the transition from:
Human-controlled mission
to
Physics-controlled descent
Stay with it - we’re about to cross into, arguably(?) (visibly?!), the most intense phase!
#NASA #Artemis #exploration #hope
💻 #WatchLive: Final stages of #Artemis II (NZ time 🇳🇿)
🧑🚀 10:00 Entry prep & final checks
🚀 11:33 Service Module separates
🌠 11:53 Reentry begins
🪂 12:03 Parachute deployment
💦 12:07 Splashdown
Perfectly timed for a late morning of watching humans fall out of space ☕🌏 #kikorangi #Saturday #NASA
lol! I labelled my version of the same pic Emupō
Co-best with #kākāpō livenestcam. Very different settings, same “watch discovery happen in real time” energy (with perhaps more of a “no idea what will happen next” possibility).
If you like watching science unfold in real time, same kind of magic, just… feathered.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDSW...
@hankgreen.bsky.social walking thru #Artemis II photos & reflecting on #Apollo8 gives me #joy.
Apollo gave us Earthrise “get me colour film!”
Artemis also gave us an unplanned moment - a view so strange astronauts struggled to describe it.
Looking at this now, I am seeing this more as a butt bag.
I may have missed out on FOTC tickets, but I did make it in time for whatever situation this is
I choose to believe this is where I am meant to be.
#HappyPlace #FOTC #kākāpō #chaoschicks #conservation #kikorangi
I clicked the ❤️ on this post… but emotionally it is a broken heart because by the time I learned about the 30 minutes the tickets existed for, it was already not "business time" for me ... it was “need a time machine & a lot of luck” time