Online Event - Kiwi Recovery: What 2026 Monitoring Reveals Across Rodney

How are our kiwi doing, and are they expanding their range across Rodney?

Join The Forest Bridge Trust Ecologist, Dr Virginia Moreno online, for a fascinating look at what our 2026 kiwi monitoring results are revealing about kiwi recovery across the region.

Between May and June, TFBT and partner conservation community groups deployed acoustic recorders across The Forest Bridge area. The monitoring is helping us understand where kiwi are moving, calling, and potentially establishing new breeding territories.

And the results are encouraging.

Kiwi have been detected further from established populations, including on the West Coast, where acoustic monitoring has picked up kiwi calls 3–6 km from the main Mataia kiwi population.

At southern Omaha, a female kiwi was detected answering the calls of the area’s resident male for the first time, a kiwi “duet” that suggests the pair may have formed a bond and could establish a breeding territory locally.