July saw the end of 2010 “Annual kiwi call count” – when volunteers brave the cold and listen at fixed locations for 8 hours over 4 nights to record the number of kiwi calls. We do this to monitor overall trends in the kiwi population at the Heads.  This year our overall call count averaged  4.1 calls per hour over 17 listening stations – slightly up from 4.0 calls per hour in 2009 and well up from 2.4 in 2007.  For more detail, click below.

WHLF kiwi call count summary to 2010