Kororā - Little Blue Penguin Talk

A collaboration with Restore Rodney East and Warkworth Forest & Bird, brought Prof John Cockrem to present in Warkworth to an audience of 55 people. John began penguin field work more than 30 years ago with Adelie and emperor penguins in Antarctica. He presented his studies of the annual cycle, breeding biology, and feeding, and showed results from at-sea tracking of individuals.

Kororā (little blue penguins) are declining and have disappeared from many locations around New Zealand coastlines.  Dr Cockrem described the biology of the kororā, and the conservation status and current threats to the species from human activities and from climate change.