Monitoring our littlest roroa

Laura and Beth

Monitoring our littlest roroa.

Laura and Beth
Bethany Brett and Laura Molles catching up to change some recorders, and for a health check on the littlest roroa at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve. Bethany checks their ears, eyes, spine, feather condition and weight.

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Cryptic species and how they are monitored

laura putting up a recorder for bioacoustic monitoring

Cryptic species and how they are monitored in New Zealand

Laura was recently featured in Issue 4 of 1964 magazine in an article about cryptic species and how they are monitored in New Zealand.

“I think one of the key things about the work for Atarau is that it used to be super labour-intensive, but not any longer. The special software that’s now available and in the pipeline has made it possible to dig all the information out of recordings without listening to it minute by minute. When the hardware became available (the actual automated recorders), people were really excited and started gathering piles and piles of recordings. And then the reality set in that it we didn’t have software that could turn those recordings into information. The software is finally catching up with the hardware. I couldn’t have done sound analysis work I did in 2017 three years before that, and I couldn’t have done the work I’m doing now in 2017. It’s rocketing along that quickly.”

 

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Laura and Beth

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Dr Laura Molles, the behavioural ecologist leading our passive acoustic monitoring project, was recently featured on CNN talking about bird dialects.
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Have a question?

We love talking about our kiwi! Read through our list of Questions & Answers, or Get in Touch with your own question.