Birds NZ Research Fund 2024 – Applications

Applications are invited from individuals, groups or organisations who are prepared to make a difference in bird research in New Zealand!

Details and an application form are available here. Applications close 15 June!

A list of preferred themes for research projects for this year’s funding round is available here

Wairarapa Atlas Expedition April 2024

The Atlas team will be running a Toi Toi Wines funded Atlas expedition to Wairarapa this April!

The group will be based in Dannevirke from Wednesday 24th April 2024, and finishing up on the Sunday 28th. The aim is to increase Atlas effort, day and night, across as much of the Wairarapa region, targeting low effort areas. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the team and contribute valuable bird observations to an under-surveyed area of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Please see the flyer for details, and you can register your name and details via the link here.

Registration will close on the 7th April at midnight.

We hope you can join us. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

The Atlas Team
New Zealand Bird Atlas
PO Box 607, Blenheim 7240.  Mobile: 022 406 7028
https://ebird.org/atlasnz/home

Meet our new Secretary – Johannes Chambon

Thank you for my co-option onto Council. My name is Johannes Chambon. Originally from France, I worked in conservation for about 9 years in different places around the world, mostly on islands. I spent several years in the Indian Ocean (Mayotte, Mauritius, Christmas Island), and have some previous experience in Aotearoa New Zealand (Te Mana o Kupe/Mana Island, Whenua Hou/Codfish Island, and Rēkohu/Wharekauri/Chatham Islands). I was involved, amongst other things, in habitat restoration (plant propagation & weed control), population monitoring of birds and reptiles, often of threatened species, and predator control. In 2020, I went back to university to complete an MRes in Biosciences at Swansea University in Wales, UK, where I studied the migration of the endangered Abbott’s booby. I recently started a PhD at the University of Otago in the Department of Zoology, studying the climate change vulnerability of two threatened seabird species endemic to the Chatham Islands, the Chatham Island tāiko and the Chatham petrel. I look forward to further contributing to the conservation of the unique avifauna of Aotearoa New Zealand further as the Secretary of Birds New Zealand.

Johannes Chambon