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When the birds arrive home from the Timor Sea in the spring, DOC staff, including ranger Mike Morrissey, identify 100 occupied burrows to revisit in the autumn, when they’ll check for the presence of a chick in order to determine the colony’s rate of breeding success. Hutton’s generally return to nest in the same burrows year after year.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 144 March-April 2017.
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2016.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/snow-birds/
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When the birds arrive home from the Timor Sea in the spring, DOC staff, including ranger Mike Morrissey, identify 100 occupied burrows to revisit in the autumn, when they’ll check for the presence of a chick in order to determine the colony’s rate of breeding success. Hutton’s generally return to nest in the same burrows year after year.<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue 144 March-April 2017.<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2016.<br /> Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/snow-birds/