Tui

Photo by Owen Cole

The Halo project must be credited with getting tui back into Hamilton City in large enough numbers to re-establish. It is hoped that kereru / woodpigeon and bellbirds will also follow.  In Mangaiti Gully since 2016 there has been a year on year increase to the point that sightings of juvenile tui during the  breeding season are now a common sight and tui are now moving out of the gully into the suburbs. We recorded a tui nest this season. A grandson of one of our volunteers edited the recordings into a You Tube clip