Look at all the kererū!

It's @jon_sullivan here from NatureWatch NZ. I've just finished uploading the big batch of casual kererū observations that were shared via the webform on the greatkererucount.nz website.

This year's count was a grand success. You can see all of the kererū observations on the map here. It's great to see New Zealand covered in kererū.

We're still hard at work cleaning up the last of the submitted data. All up, we've now got 16,222 birds counted and uploaded onto this NatureWatch NZ project. We've got another 3,418 birds counted in observations submitted to the Great Kererū Count webpage that miss some important details (like location). We're following up on those now. If we can get all those cleaned up, we'll be looking at a grand total of just under 20,000 birds (we're at 19,640 at the moment).

On behalf of the NZ Bio-Recording Network trust that operates NatureWatch NZ, I'd like to extend a big thanks to the Great Kereru Count organisers (including @parkecology, @amber_tony, @stephen_hartley), the volunteer curators on NatureWatch NZ (especially @tony_wills , @kiwifergus , @angelasimpson , @johnb-nz , and @john_barkla), and all of you. This has been the biggest kererū count yet, by far. Thanks for all of your feedback too. We've learned a lot this time that we hope will make next year's count easier and even bigger.

Posted on October 5, 2015 01:15 AM by jon_sullivan jon_sullivan

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