We hope you'll join us for the 2016 great kereru count, starting 16 September

As a participant in the 2015 Great Kererū Count, we'd like to warmly welcome you to join us for the 2016 count.

The Great Kererū Count will take place over 10 full days from 16 to 25 September 2016. Like last year's count, it's the time for all New Zealanders to get together and do a population health check for these amazing birds. So get ready to get out and about and make your kererū count. And please spread the word.

You can join up to the 2016 NatureWatch NZ project at https://inaturalist.nz/projects/great-kereru-count-2016. Or, just start posting your kereru observations on NatureWatch NZ and our keen curators will do the rest.

It is helpful if you do join the 2016 project and add your observations from there. That way you'll get to see all the extra details that the Great Kererū Count organisers would like to know (like how long you were looking, and what the birds were doing).

The Great Kereru Count people have put together some nice detailed instructions for each of the three ways people can share their counts. The NatureWatch NZ team will also be available, as we always are, at help@inaturalist.nz.

Our colleagues at Victoria University in Wellington have been busy analysing the results of 2015's mighty kererū count. You can read about their findings in their report here (although, caution, it's not light bedtime reading). The more people get involved, and the more years the kererū count runs, the more we'll learn.

Posted on September 7, 2016 04:37 AM by jon_sullivan