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[NZ] Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard: how a city brought back its birds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/18/penguins-in-the-pond-kiwis-in-back-yard-how-a-city-brought-back-its-birds-aoePenguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard: how a city brought back its birds
As nature falls silent in most cities around the world, New Zealand’s capital has been transformed by the sound of native birds returning to the dawn chorus
by Eva Corlett in Wellington, New Zealand
The age of extinction is supported by theguardian.org
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Thu 18 Apr 2024 04.45 EDT
Some time in the pre-dawn darkness, the commotion starts. From her bed, Danae Mossman hears the noise building: loud romantic liaisons, vomiting, squeals, the sound of bodies hitting the pool at full tilt.
Things get particularly loud between midnight and 4am, Mossman says, “when they are getting busy”.
Mossman’s hard-partying housemates are a flock of kororā, or little penguin, the world’s smallest, which have formed a growing colony beneath her house in the Wellington suburb of Karaka Bays on the Miramar peninsula. They use her lily ponds for pool parties, and during nesting season, they create a stink.
“They go out and get fish, regurgitate it and eat that for three days.”
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As nature falls silent in most cities around the world, New Zealand’s capital has been transformed by the sound of native birds returning to the dawn chorus
by Eva Corlett in Wellington, New Zealand
The age of extinction is supported by theguardian.org
About this content
Thu 18 Apr 2024 04.45 EDT
Some time in the pre-dawn darkness, the commotion starts. From her bed, Danae Mossman hears the noise building: loud romantic liaisons, vomiting, squeals, the sound of bodies hitting the pool at full tilt.
Things get particularly loud between midnight and 4am, Mossman says, “when they are getting busy”.
Mossman’s hard-partying housemates are a flock of kororā, or little penguin, the world’s smallest, which have formed a growing colony beneath her house in the Wellington suburb of Karaka Bays on the Miramar peninsula. They use her lily ponds for pool parties, and during nesting season, they create a stink.
“They go out and get fish, regurgitate it and eat that for three days.”
[...]