Flash finds a new home

Baby Flash.

Flash, the Transpower kiwi, is thriving and has gone to a new home.

Transpower adopted Flash after a Transpower Grant helped the Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum with its programme of boosting the numbers of kiwi in the area.

Flash was a wild-born chick taken from Purua (north-west of Whangarei). Nine months ago he was transferred to a temporary home on predator-free Limestone Island in Whangarei Harbour. Flash now weighs 1.35kg, with a bill length of 89.4mm.

With three other kiwi from Limestone Island, Flash was recently recaught and transferred to a new home in bush on a farm at Mount Manaia on Whangarei Heads.

The site was chosen because of the great habitat and excellent dog control provided by the farmer. The Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum will continue to monitor these birds.

They also aim to transfer a further 10 to 15 chicks out to the Heads to further boost the kiwi population.

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