{"id":389,"date":"2018-01-20T12:56:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T23:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/?p=389"},"modified":"2018-04-16T20:06:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T08:06:47","slug":"confirmed-presence-of-a-rock-wren-colony-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed presence of a rock wren colony&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rock wren of the Wilkin Valley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Aspiring Biodiversity Trust are pleased to report the confirmed presence of rock wren at the north branch of the Wilkin River following the undertaking and setting up of a recent (Jan 2018) transect monitoring survey.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-185 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Optimized-rwfemale.jpg\" alt=\"rock wren - Rachel Hufton\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Optimized-rwfemale.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Optimized-rwfemale-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Optimized-rwfemale-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Optimized-rwfemale-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rock wren (adult female)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rock wren <em>Xenicus gilviventris<\/em> is the only true alpine New Zealand bird species and is currently classed as globally endangered under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Peter Child&#8217;s (1980) work was the first comprehensive bird survey of Mt Aspiring National Park for rock wren.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-187 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Optimized-Castalia3.jpg\" alt=\"Rachel Hufton rock wren survey\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Optimized-Castalia3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Optimized-Castalia3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Optimized-Castalia3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Optimized-Castalia3-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Hufton surveying rock wren habitat at Lake Castalia, north source of the Wilkin River.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The main threat to this species is predation from invasive mammals such as stoats and rats now known to be present within alpine environments. The results of the survey will help inform and guide existing and future conservation management for rock wren. Monitoring transects will also be repeated in subsequent years to allow more informed decisions to be made in relation to this indigenous alpine specialist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock wren of the Wilkin Valley The Aspiring Biodiversity Trust are pleased to report the confirmed presence of rock wren at the north branch of the Wilkin River following the undertaking and setting up of a recent (Jan 2018) transect monitoring survey. Rock wren Xenicus gilviventris is the only true alpine New Zealand bird species &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/?p=389\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Confirmed presence of a rock wren colony&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[9,21,10,7,8],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-birdmonitoring","category-uncategorized","tag-endangered-species","tag-lake-castalia","tag-rachel-hufton","tag-rock-wren","tag-wilkin-valley","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiringbiodiversity.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}