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We add resources all the time! Check out videos on our youtube channel.

Monitoring Bittern

Active Listening Workbook to help get you muster ready!

Acoustic Monitoring Resources

Bittern Booming – Sound files (15min wetland recording or edited version)
How to detect Bittern in your sound files (if you need help – we also provide an independent contract service to plan and analyse your bittern acoustic monitoring for you)
How a Bittern booms – take a look at Mr UK as a reference.

Let’s learn about Bittern! Educational resources for school aged Children.

Creating Bittern detectives and wetland ambassadors through stories, activities, games, music and science enquiry to help influence our future thinkers.

Link to our basic outline for the school program for learners aged 4 to 14 and a summary of resources available.

A story of ‘ A bittern named Hū.’ (read aloud here, included in the resources above)

Darwin200 Video Series – Matuku Hūrepo: A Booming Future

A Booming Future is a powerful 3-episode documentary looking into the world of the Australasian bittern—one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most elusive and endangered birds through the eyes of a Darwin200 Leader Nardi de la Torre (Ecuador).

Department of Conservation

2024 Conservation management of the crytically endangered Matuku-hūrepo / Australasian Bittern