Great Kererū Count 2021 is coming soon!
17th to 26th September
https://www.greatkererucount.nz
The Great Kererū Count is NZ’s only large-scale community science project dedicated to our precious kererū. This is the 8th year of the Great Kererū Count. Come together for 10 full days of fun from the 17th to 26th September 2021 and let’s make this the biggest Great Kererū Count yet!
Whether you love their classic white singlets, their whooping wing-beats, or their awesome aerial acrobatics, kererū are especially unique to us. As well as being real characters of our bush, they are also the gardeners of the sky – spreading seeds of our forest giants such as tawa, hīnau and miro.
The Great Kererū Count is about New Zealand coming together to create a statistically significant data set on kererū so we can understand what we can do to help them thrive.
Over the past 7 years, tens of thousands of people have made observations about the presence or absence of kererū, their location and their behaviour. Over those past 7 years, New Zealand community scientists have contributed to a whopping total of 52,034 observations and 119,910 kererū counted.
So make sure you don’t miss out on this year’s final count down and help us complete the only national data set on kererū. This data will be open source and available to all researchers.
The Great Kererū Count is a collaborative project by:
Urban Wildlife Trust & Kererū Discovery along with our amazing partners Wellington City Council Dunedin City Council City Sanctuary, Nelson City Council and Te Herenga Waka—Wellington Uni
The Great Kererū Count is also proudly supported by:
iNaturalist NZ - Mātaki Taiao, Department of Conservation, Forest & Bird, Kiwi Conservation Club, ZEALANDIA Ecosanctuary, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, Nelson Nature, Wellington Zoo, Enviroschools Te Upoko o Te Ika a Māui Learn NZ, Birds New Zealand, Wildland Consultants, Project Kereru, Restore Taranaki, Taranaki Regional Council, Greater Wellington, Upper Hutt City Council, Science Learning Hub, New Zealand Garden Bird Survey, Te Motu Kairangi-Miramar Ecological Restoration, Predator Free New Zealand Trust, Kapiti Island Nature Tours, The Wildlife Hospital - Dunedin, Native Bird Rescue - Waiheke Island, Predator Free Karori, Lower Hutt Kererū Rescue, Pest Free Tawa, Feather Friendly Bird Collision Deterrent Markers, Global Bird Rescue and thousands of awesome people across New Zealand.
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Great Kererū Count 2021
17 September to 26 September
https://www.greatkererucount.nz/
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