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@zkarj Here's a snippet of one of the recordings I made yesterday to give you an idea of just how many korimako were singing and why I was struggling to count them in places.
This was in the core of the native forest on the southern side of Sugarloaf up in the Christchurch Port Hills. It's a naturally regenerated native forest with a few older old growth trees in it, and the #ChristchurchCityCouncil Port Hills rangers do pest control in the reserve.
It didn't used to sound like this!
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Perhaps the biggest highlight of today's run up through the Ōtautahi Port Hills was just how many more korimako (NZ bellbirds) there are about now compared with when I started doing this survey.
I just checked and on my July 2017 run, I made 54 korimako observations. Today, on the same route, I made 249(!). That's just the mapped points. Some of today's observations were of about 50 birds singing at once.
Check out the two maps to see the big difference.
Huge credit here goes to the City Council Port Hills rangers and the volunteers of the Summit Road Society. Both groups have been helping the native forest to regenerate and have been controlling the pest mammals that eat the birds. It's working!
#UrbanEcology #EcologicalMonitoring #birds #nz #Christchurch #map #ChristchurchCityCouncil #SummitRoadSociety
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This is locally known as Eel Bridge, and for good reason.
There lots of eels living in the Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River, and whenever I pass this bridge there's usually a group of walkers watching them.
I like how the #ChristchurchCityCouncil has erected a sign asking people to look after the eels.
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Here are the links to projects each of NZ's official entries into the City Nature Challenge 2023:
https://inaturalist.nz/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-auckland-tamaki-makaurau
https://inaturalist.nz/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-ngamotu-new-plymouth
https://inaturalist.nz/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-te-matau-a-maui-hawke-s-bay
https://inaturalist.nz/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-te-upoko-o-te-ika-wellington
https://inaturalist.nz/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-otautahi-christchurchDifferent things will be happening in each city.
For example, in Ōtautahi-Christchurch on Friday 28 April, the #ChristchurchCityCouncil Rangers will lead a public nature ramble through the earthquake eastern Red Zone. https://inaturalist.nz/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-otautahi-christchurch/journal/78054
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If you live in #Ōtautahi-#Christchurch, note that the #ChristchurchCityCouncil is currently calling for public submissions on a plan to develop part of the eastern Red Zone, empty since the earthquakes, into a wildlife refuge and wetland.
It sounds like a good way to bring more nature into the city.
The deadline for public submissions is 10 March.