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Waitangiroto Nature Reserve

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440:. Between 1984 and 1986, the maximum number of visitors was increased to 135 per year. A draft management plan produced in 1986 allowed for the possibility of a tourism operation in the reserve. Because the existing visitor numbers had no noticeable effects on the colony, a concession was granted in 1988 for a commercial operator, White Heron Sanctuary Tours, to take visitors to the reserve. Established in 1987, White Heron Sanctuary Tours is operated by the Arnold family, a fifth-generation settler family in Whataroa. In 1989, the conditions of the concession allowed 6,000 visitors to be taken to the reserve each year. Originally access to the colony was by 45: 464: 390: 560: 61: 548: 512: 476: 488: 524: 536: 500: 285: 298: 68: 448:
to the lagoon, then up the mouth of the Waitangiroto to a boardwalk that led to the viewing station. Both rivers, however, have unpredictable and changing channels, and tourist access was dependent on tides and river conditions. In 2020 the Arnolds negotiated with local landowners to build an access
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The first attempts to protect the area began in 1924, when an honorary ranger was appointed to monitor a 60-metre-wide (200 ft) strip on each bank of the Waitangiroto River. By 1940, there were only four nests at the colony. A paid ranger was appointed to monitor and protect the colony and
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In the 1940s around a dozen pairs of herons would nest each year, but the colony numbers are now fairly stable at about 100–120 breeding birds (50–60 nests), following periods of growth in the 1960s and 1980s; 65 pairs were recorded in 1981. On average 0.6–2.0 chicks fledge per nest, with the
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Of these birds (near 4 ft. high) imagine seeing around you from 50 to 60, sitting on high pines and lower trees, in a circle of about 150 yards, their pure white feathers shining in the sun. It was a glorious sight—I gave up pulling, and watched the tribe for a long time. They were not at all
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About 2500 tourists visit the colony each year during the breeding season—from mid-September when pairs are forming through to the end of fledging in February, after which birds disperse throughout New Zealand. Occasionally over autumn and winter the tourism company has offered tours of the
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escort visitors in 1944. The area was gazetted as a Waitangiroto Wildlife Refuge in 1957 after an adjacent Māori nature reserve had been acquired. The reserve was reclassified into the Waitangiroto Nature Reserve in 1976, and access to the colony was restricted to by permit only.
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percentage surviving to fledging gradually decreasing as the colony size increased; chick survival also depends on the frequency of storms and levels of summer rainfall, which has been increasing over the last 70 years. In the breeding season herons feed in the river and nearby
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found only six nests remaining, and because "certain miscreants destroyed a quantity of nearly-hatched eggs", tearing down saplings to procure them, the birds had abandoned the colony; Hamilton hoped the birds would "find a more secure place for their new home".
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and paddled up the "Waitangi-Roto" River, in search of a lake he was told was fifteen or twenty miles inland. A few miles up the river, he came across the "cranery", and described the white herons there in a letter to his wife
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also breed alongside the kōtuku. The breeding colony is a visitor attraction during the breeding season, but access to the entire nature reserve is by permit only. Visitors can view the birds from a
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In 2023, there were 56 pairs of kōtuku nesting in the reserve, an increase compared with recent years. The increase was attributed mainly to the effects of predator control around the reserve.
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road across farmland to the edge of the nature reserve, and visitors now travel by minibus from Whataroa, and take a short walk through kahikatea forest to an enclosed
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Ecological and human dimensions of tourism-related wildlife disturbance at the Waitangiroto white heron (kotuku) colony, South Westland, New Zealand
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forest, bog, lake, lagoon, and other coastal habitats. Mueller remarked on the dense bush either side of the river, with "beautiful
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made hunting of white herons illegal, and adult birds have no natural predators in New Zealand, though chicks are preyed on by
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Panorama of the heron colony from inside the viewing hide, at the beginning of the nesting season in October
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shy—kept up a continual 'plappering' amongst themselves, and seemed to be astonished at me more than afraid
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Restrictions on visitor numbers and a full-time warden have kept the colony safe from disturbance. The
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trees abounding and almost all shrubs in flower…". At the colony, kōtuku and little shags / kawaupaka (
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In 1986, there were typically less than 100 visitors to the colony each year, most of these were
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This was the first sighting of the kōtuku colony by Europeans. Six years after Mueller's account
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Although the kōtuku nesting colony is commonly known as the "Ōkārito colony",
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in a different drainage basin. White herons can be commonly seen feeding in
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across the Waitangiroto River. Tours of the reserve operate from a base in
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Dion Arnold checking a pest control trap at Waitangiroto Nature Reserve
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Kazmierow, Bronek J.; Hickling, Graham J.; Booth, Kay L. (June 2000).
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rainforest or estuary for visitors interested in natural history.
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My Dear Bannie: Gerhard Mueller's letters from the West Coast 1865–6
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The Waitangiroto Nature Reserve is the only known nesting area for
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Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand
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is a protected area of 1,534 ha (3,790 acres) near
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Dion Arnold and the White Heron Sanctuary Tours minibus
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Dion Arnold with a stoat caught in a pest control trap
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The kōtuku colony from inside the viewing hide, 1991
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Index

IUCN category
strict nature reserve

Map showing the location of Waitangiroto Nature Reserve
Whataroa
43°08′51″S 170°17′06″E / 43.1475°S 170.2850°E / -43.1475; 170.2850
Nature reserve
Waitangiroto River
Department of Conservation
Whataroa
West Coast
kahikatea
Waitangiroto River
Ardea alba modesta
Royal spoonbills
little shags
hide
Whataroa
Ōkārito
glacial moraine
Ōkārito Lagoon
Māori
Gerhard Mueller
waka
Thomas Potts
Augustus Hamilton


Ardea alba modesta
kahikatea

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