Spot That Pigeon!

Take a break from watch­ing polls and start watch­ing birds with The Great Ker­erū Count. For­est & Bird have teamed up with local com­pa­ny Thun­dermaps to cre­ate an easy way for all of us to track these mag­nif­i­cent yet near-threat­ened native pigeons, using the Thun­dermaps smart­phone apps or web appli­ca­tion.

Ker­erū are vital to the health of our forests, because they’re big enough to swal­low and spread the seeds of tawa, miro, and oth­er trees. They’re rel­a­tive­ly com­mon around the West­ern hills of Welling­ton, and in the Hutt Val­ley, but it would be great to see them spread­ing east across the city. Start­ing on Mon­day, for a two week peri­od you’ll be able to con­tribute to our under­stand­ing of their dis­tri­b­u­tion and habits by adding your obser­va­tions and pho­tos.