Bird watching

Date: 12 Jun 2007 - 08 May 2009 - 12 Jun 2007 - 08 May 2009

By: New Zealand. Department of Conservation. Otago Conservancy; Frizzell, Helen Isobel, active 1986-

Reference: OHColl-0869

Description: Interviews with Alan and Connie Wright, Christopher Robertson and Shirley Webb who were involved with watching, recording, banding and looking after birdlife and in particular the breeding albatross, at the only mainland colony of albatross in the world, Taiaroa Head, Otago Peninsula. Alan Wright was a senior wildlife officer at Taiaroa Head and Christopher Robertson headed the Taiaroa Head research and management programme and the research prograamme for DOC, 1968-2000.Interviews include life history details. Accompanying material - Map of Taiaroa Head showing facilities and historic sites with Alan Wright's abstract Interviewer(s) - Helen Frizzell Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-016053 to OHC-016065 Tape numbers - OHDL-000083, OHDL-001022 - OHDL-001024 Quantity: 13 C60 cassette(s). 4 printed abstract(s). 2 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 10 electronic scan(s) of original colour photographic print(s). 6 electronic scan(s) of original black and white photographic print(s). 4 interview(s). Processing information: Scant records only for Shirley Webb, Chris Robertson (OHA-5915, OHA-7193) Digital component of this collection is currently being processed by staff

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Dominion Museum (N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-BIRD-1940s-01

Description: Information sheet printed on both sides. One side has photographs and text about identification of birds and shows photographs of a heron, a gull, a hawk and a pigeon. The other side shows photographs of stages of a nesting cycle and shows how to records nature observations. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on both sides of sheet 293 x 457 mm. Provenance: Donated by Brian de Joux, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: [1880s]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA7-38-14

Description: Shows a man lying on his stomach on a rock and keas on the rocks close by. Photograph taken by Burton Bros, ca 1880s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 5609 - Confiding keas; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Burton Bros, Dunedin Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 12.2 x 17.9 cm on mount 22.5 x 29 cm