Scientists to seek kakapo
Wellington reporter
Scientists will . enter Doubtful Sound this week to look far a colony of kakapo first reported there last year. They will try to find out how many of the birds there are and how they live. So far this summer has not been a good one for studying Kakapo. Bad weather on Stewart Island forced another scientific party to abandon its work there during December. Survival rather than study became the main task of this party: one scientist had to be kept inside two sleeping bags until rescue from the cold and rain was possible.
That party found signs of kakapo but no birds. It was assumed that in the ba,d weather the birds had decided not to mate this year. Another party will return to Stewart Island in April to resume the study.
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Press, 6 February 1979, Page 3
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