“This means they were hatched on Mt Pirongia but weren’t recorded,” she said. “We’re absolutely thrilled to see nesting success for a pair of unbanded kōkako here, which are obviously the offspring of some of those first kōkako we translocated just 3 years ago.”
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The Pirongia te Aroaro o Kahu Restoration Society is working to increase the kōkako population in the Waikato. Rogers said the kōkako breeding success means the population is now in its third generation and growing. The number of kōkako breeding pairs have more than doubled in the last year.