Mahi Kororā
Kororā
This past year we have been working in conjunction with the New Zealand Penguin Initiative, Ngāmotu marine reserve society and Ngāti Te Whiti on a kororā monitoring project at Ngāmotu and Wai iti beach colonies. The project included attaching GPS chips to kororā to track thier movements during foraging trips to get an indication how far they go, how frequently and how long they are gone.This can help to indicate how hard they need to work when foraging for food which in turn indicates the abundance of fish life off our coasts. These GPS chips are retrieved after three or four nights and the data analysed. Additionally, we are microchipping as many kororā as we can to help us understand more around their nesting habits (whether or not they return to the same colonies each year or even the same nest)and to monitor their health by way of weight and longevity of life. Ngāti Mutunga intend to add kororā to our mauri compass as an indicator species for the environmental health of the moana and takutai, as a result this mahi will be ongoing.
Kororā – species work
This past year we have been working in conjunction with the New Zealand Penguin Initiative, Ngāmotu marine reserve society and Ngāti Te Whiti on a kororā monitoring project at Ngāmotu and Wai iti beach colonies. The project included attaching GPS chips to kororā to track their movements during foraging rips to get an indication how far they go, how frequently and how long they are gone.This can help to indicate how hard they need to work when foraging for food which in turn indicates the abundance of fish life off our coasts. These GPS chips are retrieved after three or four nights and the data analysed. Additionally, we are microchipping as many kororā as we can to help us understand more around their nesting habits (whether or not they return to the same colonies each year or even the same nest) and to monitor their health by way of weight and longevity of life.
Ngāti Mutunga intend to add kororā to our mauri compass as an indicator species for the environmental health of the moana and takutai, as a result this mahi will be ongoing.
