TO SAVE THE KAKAPO

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Year
1998
Reference
F37146
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1998
Reference
F37146
Media type
Moving image
Item unavailable online
Series
WILD SOUTH
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Television
Duration
0:52:08
Production company
Natural History NZ, Studio Hamburg Fernseh Allianz, VIDEAL
Credits
Director: Alison Ballance
Producer: Alison Ballance
Executive Producer: Neil Harraway
Executive Producer: Peter Hayden
Camera: Earl Kingi
Camera: Guy Marris
Camera: Max Quinn
Camera: Paul Donovan
Remote Camera: Alison Ballance
Editor: Marilyn McArthur
Narrator: Karen Elliot

Documentary series exploring the unique diversity of New Zealand's natural history.
This programme is about a crucial year’s work in the battle to save NZ’s flightless parrot, the kakapo, on Codfish Island .
All the techniques of nest minding, supplementary feeding, fostering and hand rearing, developed to save this bird on the brink of extinction, are brought to play. There are “first time” spy camera shots inside a kakapo nest showing a female feeding her chick. There are also rare infrared shots of a male kakapo performing booming and “chinging” mating calls and a dance. There are moments of high drama when conservation officers guarding the nests have to intervene to remove sickly or starving chicks.