Chatham Island Taiko

The first specimen of the Magenta Petrel was collected from His Italian Majesty's ship Magenta on July 22, 1867 in the South Pacific ocean, midway between New Zealand and South America. The link between it and the presumed-extinct Chatham Island Taiko was only confirmed when the first Taiko was caught on Chatham Island, New Zealand by David Crockett on January 1, 1978. Formerly widespread on Chatham Island, the Taiko is now confined to the forested Tuku valley system on the south-west of the island.

The Chatham Island Taiko is classified as Critically Endangered (CR), facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

The Magenta Petrel or Chatham Island Taiko (Pterodroma magentae) is a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus, Pterodroma. The first specimen of the Magenta Petrel was collected from His Italian Majesty's ship Magenta on July 22, 1867 in the South Pacific ocean, midway between New Zealand and South America. The link between it and the presumed-extinct Chatham Island Taiko was only confirmed when the first Taiko was caught on Chatham Island, New Zealand by David Crockett on January 1, 1978. More

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* Chatham Island Taiko open this site in another window - Outlines the discovery of the Taiko. * Chatham Island Taiko Trust open this site in another window - Comprehensive site about New Zealand's most endangered bird, found only on the Chatham Islands. More

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The world’s rarest seabird, the Chatham Island taiko, has amateur ornithologist David Crockett to thank for its rescue from almost certain extinction. Crockett became interested in ornithology in the 1940s. As a Christchurch schoolboy, he was involved in a bird club at the Canterbury Museum. Crockett became familiar with bird bones when museum director and eminent ornithologist Robert Falla encouraged him to patrol the Christchurch beaches for bird skeletons to add to the Museum’s collections. More

between this specimen and the Chatham Island Taiko was forged by Dr. Bill Bourne, a renowned seabird authority who had been studying seabird bone collections. Bourne working on collections housed in London, realized that the mounted specimen in Turin and the abundant subfossil remains of a petrel collected during the 19th century from rubbish heaps or middens left by the Moriori on Chatham Island, New Zealand, may in fact belong to the same species (Bourne, 1964). More

Established in 1998 the Chatham Island Taiko Trust was created to conserve the taiko and other unique Chatham Island wildlife as an integral part of the Chatham Island landscape. Although originally created to help save the endangered taiko, the Trust’s has expanded its aims to provide the Chatham Island community with the opportunity and tools needed to preserve and enhance natural habitats and wildlife on their unique islands. More

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Chatham Island taiko were thought to be extinct for more than a century before being rediscovered in 1978 by school teacher and ornithologist David Crockett and a band of keen volunteers. Following on from this success, David Crockett formed the Taiko Trust which has played a critical role in helping to fund research and management of taiko. More

The Chatham Island taiko was declared extinct, but was rediscovered by David Crocket in 1978 at the south-east corner of Chatham Island, 111 years after it was first found at sea. It took nearly a decade before the first three burrows were found in 1987 with the aid of radio transmitters. By 1999, more than two decades after the taiko was rediscoverd, a total of 23 burrows had been found. More