Introduced rats are now being eradicated from many islands. Increasingly, these
eradications are contested by activists claiming moral, legal, cultural, historic or scientific …

Kokako Callaeas cinerea wilsoni (Callaeidae) populations are declining in unmanaged
primary forests of the North Island, New Zealand. An 8-year experiment to determine the …

Evolution of parental care behaviour has been of considerable interest to behavioural
ecologists for a long time. Incubation feeding, where an individual incubating eggs is …

Populations of ship rats (Rattus rattus) and Norway rats (R. norvegicus) were sampled over
the five years 1983–87 at Pureora Forest Park, by Fenn and rat kill‐traps every three …

Summary 1 Quantitative predictions of the effects of perturbations on communities of
interacting species have often proved to be difficult. However, if precise predictions are not a …

Populations of four species of carnivores were sampled over the five years 1983-87 at
Pureora Forest Park, by regular three-monthly Fenn trap index lines supplemented with …

Animal translocation success rate is generally low, with the causes of failure poorly
understood without comprehensive and protracted monitoring. Here we examine the …

Abstract We studied North Island kokako (Callaeas cinerea wilsoni) breeding attempts and
their outcomes from 1989-90 to 1993-94 at Rotoehu Forest (Bay of Plenty) as part of a basic …

Nestlings of altricial birds are not typically provisioned water. For the first time in a wild
altricial bird we provide annotated video documentation of adult pied crows (Corvus albus) …

Abstract Breeding of North Island kokako (Callaeas cinerea wilsoni) was studied at Mapara,
King Country, New Zealand, from 1990 until 2000. Sixty-seven adult and 167 nestling …