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A plethora of islands – surveying breeding seabirds in Fiordland

A team comprised of staff from Te Papa and the Department of Conservation (DOC) recently spent a week surveying islands in northern Fiordland. In this second blog based on the trip, vertebrates curator Colin Miskelly describes some of the sites visited and discoveries made.Read more

By: Colin Miskelly

On: 9 Dec 2020

In: Science

Take that you dirty rat! – the unglamorous side of museum work

The position of Curator Terrestrial Vertebrates was a new one for Te Papa in mid 2010. My predecessor had been the Curator of Birds, and the expanded role meant that for the first time a curator would be responsible for land mammals, as well as for birds, reptiles and frogs.Read more

By: Colin Miskelly

On: 20 Oct 2011

In: Science