Locally abundant along alluvial stream.
Under an overhang.
Three small juveniles were found beneath loose bark on a standing dead beech tree on boxing day 1996, and raised to adulthood in captivity (as 2 are depicted in these photos). An adult was also spotlit in a nearby dead tree at night. Since then, these dead trees have fallen and rotted away, and the general area (though not the exact observation site) has also been selectively logged. Hopefully the species is still doing okay in the extensive forests here, but they are so hard to find in this environment, and the historical, and not so historical removal of many of the older trees will likely have thinned out the number of habitable trees somewhat.
Found in cracks within an old Miro/matai tree that had fallen across a track and been chopped to clear the track, within an extensive Eucalypt plantation. A large living miro/matai stood nearby so hopefully the pop is able to persist in that.
Several found in dry stony river-side areas. Others previously seen around foot of adjacent mountains. Seem to be typical Southland korero specimens, not the mountain beech gecko.