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rooks
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:49 pm
by les
Saw a group of 6 rooks yesterday on a trip from napier to wairoa,they were at the end of the new matahoura gorge bypass and there were some large walnut trees which may have been the reason they were there?the nuts have just started dropping and rooks have a penchant for them.Not a big deal to me to see a rook but thinking about it afterwards its the first ones I have seen for quite a while and living in Hawkesbay it used to be a common thing to see these birds all around here.
Re: rooks
Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 9:57 pm
by kelly111
That's cool you got to see some as I think not alot of them around any more.very cool looking bird.
Re: rooks
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:35 am
by Cheryl Walton
Hi Les
The reason they are so few and far between in HB is that the HBRC have culled a lot of them.
here is a link to their page
https://www.hbrc.govt.nz/environment/pe ... sts/rooks/Cheryl
Re: rooks
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 3:14 pm
by boneywhitefoot
saw one on the road to Lake Ferry this weekend.
Re: rooks
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:39 pm
by Wandoona
I saw over 100 at Matahoura Gorge Bypass. They are feeding on the same tree as seen this time last year. Very flighty when I got out of the car
Re: rooks
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 9:50 pm
by SomesBirder
That's not good! I was wondering whether COVID-19 would interfere with eradication efforts.
Re: rooks
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2021 2:23 pm
by Wandoona
Exterminating corvid during covid
Re: rooks
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2021 5:18 pm
by les
thats about where I was seeing them,not having travelled that way for a year or so interesting that they have increased so fast?The HBRC will have the rookery earmarked for poisoning next spring?
Re: rooks
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2021 5:41 pm
by wghabbott
I saw 6 flying across highway 2 a few kilometres north of the boundary road turnoff with the cafe on the corner. They flew into a stand of non-native-looking trees on the west of the highway. This was Friday 1st April.
Re: rooks
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:06 pm
by Jan
It is a pity that people post these sightings which give regional councils info. to target a very intelligent, mainly harmless species that doesn't warrant such eradication. Magpies are also introduced and in large numbers in some areas where they have a nasty effect on native birds, but because they don't affect crops we don't eradicate them. I think this is entirely wrong.