Ahead of a visit to Orokonui\u00a0Ecosanctuary this summer,\u00a0polish up your m\u0101tauraka taiao\u00a0with Madison Kelly and\u00a0Taylor Davies-Colley.<\/p>\n
Raumati\/summer is in full swing at Orokonui. The whole Orokonui team are looking forward to a busy season, full of birdsong and adventurous visitors ready to learn about our incredible taiao.<\/p>\n
It has been a huge year for the sanctuary, and for conservation news around the country.<\/p>\n
So, test your native wildlife knowledge against these photos taken at Orokonui by comms lead Taylor Davies-Colley.<\/p>\n
Question 1\u00a0Orokonui is home to the only East Coast population of which native parrot?<\/p>\n
A.\u00a0Kea<\/p>\n
B.\u00a0K\u0101k\u0101p\u014d<\/p>\n
C.\u00a0K\u0101k\u0101riki<\/p>\n
D.\u00a0K\u0101k\u0101?<\/p>\n
Question 2\u00a0This k\u014dk\u014d\/t\u016b\u012b is dusted in the indigo pollen of which vibrant flowering plant?<\/p>\n
Question 3\u00a0Orokonui is home to many avian predators including these young cavity dwellers. Can you identify the chicks in this nest box?<\/p>\n
Question 4\u00a0This special native tick is completely endemic to which reptile?<\/p>\n
Question 5\u00a0Which flightless South Island native left these footprints in the snow?<\/p>\n
Question 6\u00a0This p\u016bk\u0101werewere\/native spider is named for its unique weaving. Is it an …<\/p>\n
A.\u00a0Orb weaver<\/p>\n
B.\u00a0Nursery web spider or<\/p>\n
C.\u00a0Tunnel web?<\/p>\n
Question 7\u00a0Kerer\u016b feasting on ripe red miro fruit is a signal for which significant annual event?<\/p>\n
Question 8\u00a0The parent of this chick might give you a fright if you get too close! Who is pictured here in their forest floor nest?<\/p>\n
Answers<\/p>\n
1 D. K\u0101k\u0101<\/p>\n
2 K\u014dtukutuku, giant tree fuschia<\/p>\n
3 Ruru\/morepork<\/p>\n
4 The tuatara, home to the tuatara tick\u00a0Archaeocroton sphenodonti<\/p>\n
5 Takah\u0113<\/p>\n
6 B. Nursery web spider,\u00a0Dolomedes minor<\/p>\n
7 Puaka Matariki<\/p>\n
8 K\u0101rearea, the native falcon<\/p>\n
Madison Kelly is lead kai\u0101rahi\/guide and Taylor Davies-Colley is comms lead at Orokonui Ecosanctuary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of a visit to Orokonui\u00a0Ecosanctuary this summer,\u00a0polish up your m\u0101tauraka taiao\u00a0with Madison Kelly and\u00a0Taylor Davies-Colley. Raumati\/summer is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-183213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}