Surprise discovery of huge bird colony on small island

A survey of a small inshore island at Cape Foulwind, near Westport, has led to the surprise discovery of what appears to be the largest West Coast seabird colony between Cook Strait and Fiordland. Members of the West Coast Blue Penguin Trust were surveying Wall Island to look for sooty shearwaters (muttonbirds) and were astonished to find not only 300 of that species, but an estimated ...