Tui and Friends Calendar, 2012

The Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust produced a beautiful calendar for 2012, Tui and Friends, which has been a sell-out success with all calendars sold by the end of December last year. However, a printing error has just been discovered which we are very sorry about. The 1st of May should be Tuesday, not Monday, and the small box below showing June is also one day out. We sincerely apologise to all our supporters, purchasers and calendar users for this error.

Kind regards,

Kit and Robyn Grigg
for the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust
and rachel.barker@bpct.org.nz

Tūī disappeared from Banks Peninsula about 20 years ago, apart from occasional sightings of individual birds.  In 2007 a group of people started planning to bring back tūī to Banks Peninsula, to see this iconic bird returned, with the hope of developing a successfully breeding population of tūī.

Translocation of tūī to a new habitat on mainland New Zealand had never been attempted before. A Tūī Restoration Group was formed and started fund-raising, predator-trapping, and preparing a release site for the transfer of tūī.

A translocation proposal was approved, and a team of volunteers spent 10 days on Maud Island in Marlborough Sound, capturing 30 tūī.

Hinewai Reserve was chosen as the release site on Banks Peninsula, as it had important features required for the translocation. A 100 hectare area of bush was selected, and a system of traplines was established. Tracking tunnels were placed on site to establish what predators were present such as stoats, possums, and rats.

Subsequent releases of tūī are underway and we welcome donations.

Resources:

	Tui Sighting Record sheet
	Tüï tucker
	Sugar water feeder
	Return of the Tui
	Tui Monitoring

Our vision is to have a healthy, self-sustaining tūī population back on Banks Peninsula, pollinating flowers and spreading native plant seeds about the landscape.