Category: Habitat for hūrepo
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Fast food for bittern
How do exotic food species stack up. Fast food, is it good for bittern? Bittern are a native, self-introduced wetland bird. According to Te Papa, fossil records indicate that the birds naturally colonised New Zealand from Australia around 1000 AD so they spent a long time living on tūna (eels)…
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Check the kai.
Do you have enough eels and fish in your wetland? Bittern are BIG birds, standing on average as tall as a dining room table (~74cm) and weighing in at over 1kg (females lighter, males heavier) bittern need a lot of food to sustain themselves. A sad reality is that bittern…
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Beyond wetlands and Bittern.
It is important to define and protect the networks of freshwater habitats used by Austalasian Bittern.
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Congratulations youve got juvenile Bittern!
Next steps for people who have juvenile or Bittern fledglings. The fact that you have juvenile Bittern means that you have enough food and security to get these youngsters to fledging. Thank you for being great guardians of your freshwater habitats! At this time of year, especially in the heat…
LOVE BITTERN PROJECT 