Bay Harbour: June 29, 2016
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PAGE 8 BAY HARBOUR<br />
Wednesday <strong>June</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2016</strong><br />
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Bird numbers rise<br />
SOOTY shearwaters, also<br />
known as mutton birds,<br />
are making a comeback in<br />
a remote Banks Peninsula<br />
breeding colony.<br />
A headland at Stony <strong>Bay</strong>,<br />
about 10km from Akaroa,<br />
is one of the last remaining<br />
sooty shearwater – or<br />
Titi – breeding sites in the<br />
South Island.<br />
Monitoring from the<br />
recent breeding season<br />
has shown the number of<br />
young has grown from 27<br />
last year, to 38.<br />
City council Banks<br />
Peninsula ranger Paul<br />
Devlin said the increase<br />
was a sign that efforts<br />
made to control predators<br />
were paying off.<br />
The city council helped<br />
build a predator-proof<br />
fence around the colony in<br />
2010 as part of a joint project<br />
with the Department<br />
of Conservation and the<br />
Banks Peninsula Conservation<br />
Trust.<br />
The fence encloses about<br />
half a hectare of land on<br />
the edge of the cliffs.<br />
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GROWING: A predator-proof fence protects the<br />
growing number of sooty shearwater birds on Banks<br />
Peninsula. (Inset) A sooty shearwater, also known as<br />
a mutton bird.<br />
Crutchley, said with the<br />
predator-proof fence doing<br />
its work, the colony was<br />
slowly recovering with<br />
about 60 breeding pairs.<br />
“From the low of five<br />
active burrows in the early<br />
2000s, there are now 38<br />
chicks ready to fledge after<br />
the <strong>2016</strong> breeding year.<br />
“It’s hoped that in the<br />
not too distant future<br />
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sooty shearwaters returning<br />
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In the 1990s, Stony<br />
<strong>Bay</strong> landowners Mark<br />
and Sonja Armstrong<br />
were concerned with the<br />
declining sooty shearwater<br />
population and built their<br />
own exclusion fence to<br />
keep predators out.<br />
However, stoats were<br />
still finding their way<br />
through the fence, so they<br />
approached DOC and the<br />
city council to build a new<br />
one.<br />
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