When tested 43% of the penguins were found to contain brodifacoum.
We still hold birds in our freezers that washed up on the Coromandel Peninsula. DOC were not interested in collecting them though when they heard we were they put there own parties out to scour the beaches to get rid of them.
A lot of dead birds have been collected by our groups on the east coast of the peninsula in early winter this year from the brodifacoum drop on Mercury Island. We have to arrange to have them tested overseas as we can no longer trust the NZ authorities.
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