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Notornis, 47 (1), 54-54

M.J. Imber (2000)

Article Type: book review


Egg thief

Southern Bird, 3 (Sep), 5-5

E. Woodger (2000)

Article Type: article









Breeding success, brood reduction and the timing of breeding in the Fiordland crested penguin (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus)

Notornis, 47 (1), 57-60

I.G. McLean (2000)

Article Type: Paper

I visited 10 breeding sites across the range of Fiordland crested penguins (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus) in 1995. Based on the developmental stage of chicks at each of the sites, breeding begins progressively later in more northern colonies. Fiordland crested penguins had unusually high hatching success on Taumaka I. (Open Bay Islands) in 1995, and I suggest from anecdotal observations made at the nine other sites that 12% of pairs may have raised two chicks in that year. Together, these observations suggest that Fiordland crested penguins had an unusually good breeding season in 1995. The suggestion that rare “good” years occur, allowing two chicks to be raised, has implications for explanations of brood reduction in crested penguins.




Queen’s Birthday Honours, June 2000

Notornis, 47 (4), 237-240

(2000)

Article Type: Article

Rhys Philip Buckingham (MNZM) Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, For Services to Ecology.David Edgar Crockett Companion of the Queen’s Service Order, For Public Services.


Atlas update

Southern Bird, 4 (Dec), 3-4

A. Riegen; J. Dowding (2000)

Article Type: article




New Zealand pigeon ( Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae ) on Raoul Island, Kermadec Group

Notornis, 47 (1), 36-38

T.H. Worthy; R. Brassey (2000)

Article Type: short note

[First paragraph…]The Kermadec Group lies about 1000 km northeast of North Island at 29º 15’S, 178º 00’W in the New Zealand archipelago. Its few land birds are all species characteristic of New Zealand: for example, the tui Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae (Cheeseman 1891, Sorensen 1964). Only the red-crowned parakeet is distinguished from its New Zealand counterpart, and then only at the subspecific level as Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae cyanurus (Higgins 1999).