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Kiwi breeding facility expansion - 19 August 2010
2010/2011 Season begins - 19 August 2010
End of 2009/2010 season - 4 May 2010
Almost there - 24 February 2010
Facebook - 17 November 2009
GSK Chicks hatch - 9 November 2009
100th Okarito chick - 9 November 2009
2009/10 kiw season begins - 5 October 2009
First chicks hatch - 5 October 2009
The big clean up - 15 July 2009
A successful 2008/09 breeding season - 21 May 2009
Paparoa GSK chick - 18 February 2009
Kiwi's hatched - 18 February 2009
New Tuatara - 18 February 2009
Kiwi breeding statistics - 12 December 2008
Princess Anne visits - 3 December 2008
08/09 kiwi eggs - 24 September 2008
2008/09 Breeding season starts - 29 July 2008
Final kiwi breeding numbers for 2007/08 - 9 June 2008
Hannah the GSK wild chick - 9 June 2008
Great Spotted Kiwi eggs - 18 February 2008
Numbers of kiwi eggs and chicks - 30 November 2007
2007 Breeding season begins - 21 August 2007
First N.I. Brown kiwi egg 2007 - 5 July 2007
Tui - 18 April 2007
Lemurs - 29 March 2007
Banded Rail - 29 March 2007
Otago Skinks - 29 March 2007
Tuatara - 29 March 2007
predator free island - 28 February 2007
kiwi breeding season 2006 - 14 February 2007
Education Programmes Open - 12 February 2007
Okarito release - 21 December 2006
Baby Joey's arrive - 14 December 2006
Current Okarito numbers - 14 December 2006
Haast Kiwis - 8 December 2006
North Island Brown Kiwis - 7 December 2006
Okarito chicks released - 16 November 2006
Haast Tokoeka Chick hatches - 2 October 2006
Second Okarito Kiwi egg hatches - 14 September 2006
First Okarito kiwi chick hatches - 9 September 2006
First North Island Brown Kiwi hatching - 6 September 2006
South Island Great Spotted Kiwi together - 18 August 2006
North Island Brown Kiwi Release - 4 August 2006
Enderby Island rabbits born - 24 July 2006
Arrival of Saxon - male Great Spotted Kiwi - 17 July 2006

Paparoa GSK chick

Issue Date: 18 February 2009

On February 6th 2008 a Great Spotted Kiwi egg was found on the hill known as 'Baldy' or Mt Watson, above Blackball on the West Coast.
The egg was brought to our facility at Willowbank where it hatched in late March. This was the first successful hatch of a GSK (Roroa) chick using the Nest Egg Programme.
This special kiwi was given the name Waewae.
Waewae spent nine months on a predator free island to enable it to grow big enough to protect itself against predators.
At the end of January 2009 Waewae was returned back into the Paparoa Ranges. This is the first of the three GSK species we have at our facility to be returned back into the wild.


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