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Whio raise more ducklings after 1080 treatment than when only traps are used to control stoats.

5/9/2019

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In Kahurangi National Park after aerial 1080 operations in 2014 and 2016 duckling numbers increased to 65 and 40 in those years compared to less than 25 where there was no predator control.
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Results from monitoring at Kahurangi are outlined below.
Whio benefit the first breeding season after 1080 treatment

Whio raise more fledglings or young after aerial 1080 pest control compared to when only traps are used to control stoats. 

Researchers monitored whio in ‘security sites’ in Kahurangi National Park where traps are used along the river corridor. Female birds were tracked using transmitters. 

We monitored whio in the Wangapeka-Fyfe Security Site in Kahurangi National Park after 1080 treatment in 2011. That season there were approximately 2.2 fledglings per breeding pair. No females were killed by stoats.    

In following years, without 1080 treatment, the numbers of young dropped. In 2012/13, when there was a large flood, there were zero fledglings per pair. In 2013/14 there were 0.5 fledglings per pair.
 
Protection declines in the second breeding season 


DOC did further research to see if 1080 treatment protected nesting whio over a second breeding season. 

We monitored at the Wangapeka-Fyfe and Oparara-Ugly security sites in Kahurangi National Park over the 2015/2016 breeding season, after 1080 treatment in 2014. We found some nests were preyed on by stoats. Overall whio raised 0.75 fledglings per pair. 

This suggests that 1080 treatment strongly benefits whio breeding the first season but this declines a year later.
 
Scientists are looking at whether further research is needed into ongoing benefits to whio from 1080 pest control.  

Whio fledgling success, Kahurangi security site

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