23 Dec 2020

Crashing petrels moving south as lights dimmed in Punakaiki

From Checkpoint, 5:47 pm on 23 December 2020

The curious case of the native Westland petrel fledglings which keep crash-landing on the West Coast. LED street lights through Punakaiki have been switched off to try to help the birds. But the seems to have just shifted the problem further south.. Tracy Neal explains.