MEETING TIME CHANGED: What Needs to be Done? AGM Discussion & Feedback

MEETING TIME CHANGED!

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO AN EARLIER MEETING THE AGM TIME HAS CHANGED TO 7:30PM NOT 7:00PM AS PREVIOUSLY NOTED. SAME VENUE:

RED CROSS HALL, PIONEER VILLAGE, SILVERDALE STREET, SILVERDALE (Opposite St Johns Ambulance Hall)

 

Agenda and Discussion as previously noted (see below)

What has been Achieved and What Needs Doing

After the formal business of the AGM we will have a brief presentation on how much of our current Restoration Plan has been achieved with species translocation and how much remains to be done. This will be followed by an open discussion on future priorities and how these might be achieved. This is an opportunity for members to hear about, and to have an influence on, our future direction. Please come along to our AGM and contribute to the discussion.

 

REMINDER MOTUORA RESTORATION SOCIETY AGM

The Motuora Restoration Society’s Annual General Meeting
will be held on Tuesday 29th May
Start time – 7:00 p.m.

NOW 7:30 PM
Red Cross hall, Pioneer Village, Silverdale —see map below

AGENDA

1. Minutes of the 2017 AGM
2. Matters arising from the Minutes
3. Financial Report
4. Chairperson’s Annual Report
5. Election of Officers and Committee Members*
6. Subscriptions for the 2018/2019 year
7. Any other Business

A short presentation on the work and aspirations of the Motuora Restoration Society will follow the AGM. The committee is keen to discuss our future plans and welcome members to join the committee.

*The officers of the Society comprise the Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson, Treasurer and Secretary, and the Constitution calls for at least two other committee members. Nominations for all these positions will be accepted by mail, to be received by the Secretary at PO Box 100132 North Shore, North Shore City 0745, by Thursday 22 May 2018. Nominations will also be accepted from the floor at the meeting. All nominees, proposers and seconders must be financial members of the Society.

We are keen to have new members so please feel free to attend our AGM and meet current committee members.

MRS Annual General Meeting

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Motuora Restoration Society’s Annual General Meeting
will be held on Tuesday 29th May
Start time – 7:00 p.m.

NOW 7:30PM

Red Cross hall, Pioneer Village, Silverdale —see map below

AGENDA

1. Minutes of the 2017 AGM
2. Matters arising from the Minutes
3. Financial Report
4. Chairperson’s Annual Report
5. Election of Officers and Committee Members*
6. Subscriptions for the 2018/2019 year
7. Any other Business

*The officers of the Society comprise the Chairperson, Deputy Chairperson, Treasurer and Secretary, and the Constitution calls for at least two other committee members. Nominations for all these positions will be accepted by mail, to be received by the Secretary at PO Box 100132 North Shore, North Shore City 0745, by Thursday 22 May 2018. Nominations will also be accepted from the floor at the meeting. All nominees, proposers and seconders must be financial members of the Society.

We are keen to have new members so please feel free to attend our AGM and meet current committee members.

Kiwi Release

‘Turua’ 21 day old female kiwi, weight 392g, released on Motuora 2/03/2018

Walking to kiwi release site

Three more North Island brown kiwi raised in the Kiwi for Kiwis Auckland zoo programme have been released on Motuora. On Friday 2nd March Turua (beautiful) a 21 day old female kiwi was ferried from Sandspit on the Norma Jean along with zoo staff, Department of Conservation staff, Motuora Restoration Committee members plus several supporters of Kiwi for Kiwis.

These kiwi are left on Motuora until they are mature when they are returned to Northland to breed. However they do so well on Motuora that some kiwi have started to breed on Motuora so there is a thriving kiwi population on the island.

Paul O’Shea about to release Turua

Two more kiwi were released on Tuesday 6th March. Paul O’Shea from the Kiwis for Kiwis zoo programme provided the following images and report:

Turn The Tide On Plastic visit to Motuora Island to assist with releasing kiwi chicks. Photo © Beau Outteridge / Turn The Tide On Plastic

Crew from the Volvo Ocean Race “Turn the Tide on Plastic” team joined staff from Department of Conservation, Kiwis for kiwi, Auckland Zoo & ATEED (Auckland Tourism Events and Environment) on a kiwi release on Motuora Island on the 6th of March. Two kiwi were released on the day – the first Moana Nui named by mana whenua for Motuora Island Ngāti Manuhiri. The name is in reference to the seaway north east of Whāngaparāoa, known to Ngāti Manuhiri as Te Moana Nui ō Toi (the Great Sea of Toi) – in which of course Motuora (Te Mau Tohorā ā Manaia) is located. The name Te Moana Nui ō Toi itself honours the famous early Māori ancestor and voyager Toi Te Huatahi. Moana Nui weighed in at 473 grams and was 29 days old and definitely the more feisty of the two kiwi.

Turn The Tide On Plastic visit to Motuora Island to assist with releasing kiwi chicks. Photo © Beau Outteridge / Turn The Tide On Plastic

The team from Turn the Tide on Plastic decided to name the second kiwi released (and brother to the kiwi that was released on Friday) Mōhio which is the te reo Māori word for wisdom and named after the Volvo Ocean Race’s albatross mascot named wisdom. Mōhio was 31 days old and 447 grams.

1988 Survey of Flora and Fauna on Motuora

John Stewart, Chairperson of Motuora Restoration Society has located a report of a careful survey of the Flora and Fauna on Motuora that was conducted by John Dowding and 11 members of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand on 29th July 1988. This thorough report details the 14 ferns, 125 higher plants, 45 bird species and 1 species of lizard observed on Motuora between August 1987 and July 1988.

A pdf copy of this report is available by clicking HERE. Please note that all information on the Motuora Restoration Society’s web site is covered by a Creative Commons Provision that allows fair use of any content on our web site when used with accurate acknowledgement of source.

Pycroft’s Petrel News from John Stewart

Pycroft’s Petrel Chick, photo J. Stewart

We have more good news from Motuora as we continue to record birds arriving back on the Island, pairing up and laying eggs. Last year we had one pair lay our first egg which subsequently hatched but, sadly, the chick died a few weeks before it was due to fledge. This year we are delighted to already have four pairs occupying nest boxes and incubating their single eggs. Three of these pairs occupied the same boxes last year, but the fourth pair has occupied a box for the first time and laid an egg.

So far this year we have at least 13 birds attending the colony, eight of these are the birds with eggs and, of the other five, one was recorded in box 74 last year and the other four are new, one from the 2013 transfer, one from the 2014 transfer and our first two from the 2015 transfer. This is the first season that we can expect to have returning birds from the 2015 transfer. One of our breeding birds is number D207311 which is in box 86. This bird was our first returner which we discovered on 28th December 2015 and it hasn’t been recorded since then until it was found in the box with an egg.

Thanks are due to our enthusiastic volunteers monitoring progress on the Island including Karin Gouldstone, Ngaire Skelton, Kay Milton, Eva and Juan Fernandez, and Morag and Simon Fordham.

John Stewart

Pycroft’s Petrel Photo J Stewart