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Penguin spying keeps at-risk birds unscratched - Lyttelton Port of Christchurch X tropical menu HomeWell-nighUsWell-nighUs Port History Board of Directors Our Senior Team Our Location Port Map Hours of Operation News Publications Photos & Videos Fast Facts e-Business Our Developments The Lyttelton Port Recovery Plan Developments at LPC Projects at the Port Proposed Channel Deepening Project Health & Safety Health & Safety Visiting Lyttelton Port? 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Ecologist Annabelle Coates gets lanugo on her hands and knees at the western end of Cashin Quay shining a torch into holes in the rocky shore. She looks for the distinctive white splat of a little white flippered penguin. “We squint for penguins and moreover for penguin poo, which looks like a splat of white paint,” she says.  ”Often, if they are around, you can smell them, too.” Annabelle was tabbed out to venery for penguins surpassing construction begins on the new trip wharfage at Lyttelton Port She’s not expecting to find any so tropical to the rented Container Terminal, surrounded a steady stream of humans, cranes and flashing lights. But she has to be sure, so a series of infrared cameras are installed withal the seawall. Some take photos every 10 seconds. Others are motion activated. A few days later, Annabelle collects the cameras and begins the task of reviewing thousands of photos. “When you scroll through them quickly, it’s kind of like watching a movie so any transpiration is really obvious,” she says. At 1.26am, a penguin appears. He (most likely a male out scouting for a spot to nest) moves in and out of frame, looks directly at the camera, and then disappears. “I was really surprised to see a penguin there in an zone with so much disturbance. It’s not a perfect habitat but it’s pretty tomfool that they are potentially nesting in such a man-made, human influenced area,” Annabelle says. The covert surveillance has worked and Annabelle heads when to the Port to try and track the night-time visitor. She looks for his tell-tale signs and peers into nearby holes but finds nothing. “From July some penguins are starting to think well-nigh nesting. The males usually find a nesting site and get it all ready and then try to vamp a female. So it was likely to be a male just scouting virtually for a nesting site,” Annabelle says. The little white flippered penguin is a little penguin (sometimes known as little undecorous penguin or, in Australia, fairy penguin) with a distinctive white stripe on the top of its wing. Although the white flippered penguins are found only on Banks Peninsula scientists believe they are not genetically variegated to little penguins. “It’s kind of like how you get woebegone fantails and grey fantails but they are the same species,” Annabelle explains. Little penguins are aptly named – they are the world’s smallest penguin. The tastefulness season goes from August to February. “Plus or minus a month,” Annabelle says. Eggs are often laid between July and November. Eggs take virtually 37 days to hatch and chicks leave the nest at well-nigh 55 days old. Little penguins are listed as “at risk – declining”. Annabelle says this is considering of predators and loss of habitat. To help out penguin tastefulness boxes have been installed on nearby Quail Island.Virtuallythe Port penguins have been known to nest in the seawalls from the Inner  Harbour to near the LPC coal yard. LPC is helping these birds by executive predators such as rats and possums in the zone and surveying the nests to alimony the birds safe. Little white flippered penguins are moreover known to nest near the shoreline virtually Naval Point, where their greatest threat is dogs stuff walked off-lead. A 2017 penguin survey by LPC unscientific there are well-nigh 55 penguins using habitat within the Port operations area. A Banks Peninsula wide survey in the early 2000s showed there were approximately 5900 little penguins living in the peninsula’s harbours and outer bays. LPC has a permit from the Department of Conservation to handle penguins if they need to in order to alimony them safe. Rachel Brown, Mahaanui Community Ranger at the Department of Conservation says, “LPC has been proactive at applying for consents and permits that are required from the Department of Conservation. LPC has moreover been zippy at towers a relationship with the Department so that the vivification of these consents and permits has been carried out in a positive way. This sets a unconfined example to other companies of how economic minutiae and conservation can work together for positive outcomes.” LPC Environmental Manager Kim Kelleher says, “The voluntary wildlife training, including looking without penguins, was really popular with staff – it sold out. It’s unconfined to see environmental sensation rhadamanthine a worthier part of our culture at LPC.” The Port has recently widow a wildlife section to its construction management plan. This unmistakably spells out what needs to happen if any wildlife is encountered. “Construction has to stop and a trained staff member will come and assess the situation,” Kim says. “Knowing what to do and having a well-spoken process ways we can alimony wildlife unscratched – and we can do it with minimal delays.” Once Annabelle declares the trip wharfage site to be self-ruling of penguins, the rocky holes at that site are filled in to prevent any nesting in the construction zone to alimony the birds safe. “There’s plenty of nearby seawalls that provide good habitat and LPC surveys the zone so we know where the nests are and can protect them, and this gives the birds a good endangerment of successfully raising chicks,” Kim says. “The other thing is that once the construction is completed, there will be increasingly sea wall whilom the upper water mark so there will be increasingly habitat than when we started.”   Caption: Ecologist Annabelle Coates installs motion detection infrared cameras withal the seawall at the Lyttelton Port     Media Contact: Allanah James | Strategic Communications Manager | Lyttelton Port of Christchurch | 021 709 652 LPC corporate office Waterfront House, 37-39 Gladstone Quay, Lyttelton, 8082 Postal write Private Bag 501, Lyttelton 8841, New Zealand Phone: (+64 3) 328 8198 Email: allreceptionists@lpc.co.nz   Send us a message. 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