Thread: Whataroa kea

As far as en masse : 7 of the 9 tagged birds died of 1080 at North Okarito 2011 during that study.
The blaming human interaction was the Fox Franz kea deaths in 2008 I think or maybe Otira deaths 2013 some press release or other, it sounded like bullshit anyway.
This article was as close to the truth as it is possible to find, its DoCs researchers internal communication saying kea benefit is “uncertain” from poison, read the whole thing, it’s quite different from the PR that gets officially released https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...ions-uncertain

“They said it was not advisable to expose nationally critical or endangered birds to aerial 1080 baiting unless evidence showed the birds did not consume non-toxic baits.”

So no, DoC clearly don’t know what they are doing when they are not taking their own advice
Roll the dice.