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Which petrel is this? A tale of polar explorers and a little seabird’s name

This month, Curator Vertebrates Alan Tennyson and the Department of Conservation’s Johannes Fischer, published a scientific paper that clarified the identity of a common subantarctic seabird. Alan explains why this was necessary and what a surprising and incredible history this research revealed.Read more

2022-09-07
By: Alan Tennyson
On: 7 Sep 2022
In: History, Science
Watercolour painting of Myosotis capitata by Nancy Adams. https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/835481

What happens when you ask ornithologists to do botany

Bird experts Colin Miskelly and Alan Tennyson recently returned from a research trip to the subantarctic Auckland Islands. Although their main aim was to study birds, Botany Researcher Heidi Meudt sent them on a separate mission – to collect a rare flower.Read more

2018-03-06
By: Heidi Meudt
On: 6 Mar 2018
In: Science
Broad-billed prion chick, Snares Island. Te Papa

Were broad-billed prions from The Snares part of the massive die-off of this species in 2011?

This was one of the key questions that we were trying to answer when four Te Papa scientists – Colin Miskelly, Antony Kusabs, Jean-Claude Stahl and I – set off for the subantarctic Snares Islands in November-December 2013.  The Snares are one of the world’s great seabird islands and broad-billedRead more

2013-12-19
By: Alan Tennyson
On: 19 Dec 2013
In: Science

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