Thread: Morepork

I thought we had Kiwi calling on our block about four years back while we were living there - I mentioned it on the other forum and “Raptor” responded saying he hoped I was right but doubted it would be possible in our area - he reckoned it would be a morepork mimicking a Kiwi - he sent me a cd with various bird songs that sounded like Kiwi - so I played it outside at night - sure enough the Morepork turned up to sing his Kiwi song - I saw him on a variety of occasions sitting on a fence outside the building - they are clever buggars
I stayed there overnight a few weeks back - beautiful still moonlight night - total silence - looks like my rat baiting over the last five years has killed the poor buggars - other folk have told me this is the sad bioproduct of brodifacoum- poison
I know of people that nurse injured birds such as morepork - they won’t use rats or mice that have been found outside dead - likely poisoned
https://www.kiwisforkiwi.org/about-k...cs/kiwi-calls/