Day One: Thursday, 24th June |
08:30-09:30
| Registration | |
| 09:30 | Opening address: Jason Gaskill | |
09:40-10:10 | Keynote speach - Global Penguin Society: the penguin advocacy for the oceans
: | Pablo Borboroglu |
| Session One - Blue Penguins | |
10:10-10:35
| Setting up a monitoring regime for blue penguins on Matiu/Somes Island, Wellington Harbour | Reg Cotter |
10:35-11:00
| Comparing the costs and benefits of flipper bands versus transponders in monitoring blue penguin breeding activity on Somes Island, Wellington. | Graeme Taylor |
11:00-11:20
| Morning tea | |
11:20-11:45
| Penguin population developments at Flea Bay from 2000 to 2008 | Thomas Stracke, Francis Helps |
11.45-12:10
| Mortality in little blue penguins (Eudyptula minor) from New Zealand: the role of starvation, parasites and other diseases | Monique van Rensburg |
| 12:10-12:35 | Breeding success and divorce and their consequences on mate and nest retention in Blue penguins, Eudyptula minor | Hiltrun Ratz |
12:35-13:00
| Student research: | |
| | Determining dietary shifts caused by at-sea events using stable isotope analysis | Scott Flemming |
| | Foraging behaviour, reproductive performance and population growth in an increasing population of blue penguins (Eudyptula minor) at Oamaru, New Zealand | Philippa Agnew |
13:00-14:00
| Lunch | |
| Session Two - Tawaki workshop | |
| 14:00-15:00 | - Recap of actions identified in Action Plan, local objectives and as identified at the 2008 penguin conference
- Population trends as indicated by:
- - site monitoring in South Westland, Fiordland and Codfish
- - coastal surveys/resurveys
- - demographics - adult and chick survival and breeding success
- Reasons for the population trends
- How to address threats
- New objectives and actions for 2010 - 2020
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| 15:00-15:20 | Afternoon Tea
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| 15:20-16:00 | Questions/discussions | |
17:00-18:30
| Field trip to Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony | |
19:00-19:30
| Pre-dinner drinks | |
| 19:30 | Dinner | |
Day Two: Friday, 25th June | |
| Session Three | |
| 09:00-09:25 | A reduction in population size of the Snares crested penguin | Dave Houston |
09:25-09:50
| Magellanic penguins in Patagonia: Conservation and management challenges | Pablo Borboroglu |
| 09:50-10:05 | Away out to A Zero | Graeme Loh |
10:05-10:15
| Synopsis of Penguins in the fourth edition of
"Checklist of the birds of New Zealand" 2010 | Graeme Loh |
| 10:15-10:35 | Morning tea | |
| Session Four - Yellow-eyed Penguins | |
10:35-11:00
| Hospitalisation of Yellow Eyed Penguins at the New Zealand Wildlife Health Centre, Massey University | Bridey White |
11:00-11:25
| Craniofacial deformities recorded in hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin) chicks at Okia Reserve (Otago Peninsula, NZ) during the 2008/09 breeding season. | David Agnew |
11:25-11:50
| Auckland Island yellow-eyed penguin distribution survey 2009 | Leith Thomson |
| 11:50-12:15 | A survey of Yellow-eyed penguin distribution in the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands | Kate Beer |
12:15-13:15
| Lunch | |
| 13:15-13:40 | Breeding success of yellow-eyed penguins on Stewart and Codfish Island / Whenua Hou 2008-09 | Sue Murray |
13:40-14:05
| Yellow-eyed penguin nest productivity 2004-2009: Boulder Beach and Sandfly Bay, Otago Peninsula | Bruce McKinlay |
14:05-14:30
| Sandfly Bay Revisited: A study of visitor attitudes, awareness and activities at the Sandfly Bay Wildlife Refuge, Otago Peninsula | Aviva Stein |
| 14:30-14:55 | Management techniques to protect hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin) from human disturbance: a review of the measures adopted at Sandfly Bay and Boulder Beach since 2006 | David Agnew |
| 14:55 | Closing | |
| 15:00 | Afternoon tea | |
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