Wild Journeys by Bruce Ansley

Author:Bruce Ansley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

The second lead came from a pounamu carver in Greymouth, Mick Collins. He reported kokako in South Westland. He gave a very detailed account of finding seventeen kokako with two kaka in the Lake Moeraki area in the 1970s.

Lake Moeraki lies near the coast, a little north of Haast. Rhys followed his track along a small creek, Venture Creek, to a ravine which usually had a dry creek bed. He bashed through thick wet undergrowth, played a recording, his kokako contact call. Got an instant response from perhaps 300 metres away.

He headed for it, through the heavy understory, played his tape again when he reached a rise, a small spur. Boop boop boop came the answering call from right above his head, an unmistakable kokako call. ‘So here I am, dead still, binoculars, camera, everything focused. Nothing more. Silence. After a while I quietly move on. You never know. I move a few metres and suddenly here it is, exactly as Mick Collins had told me, this dry creekbed, steep ravine.’

The kokako fell silent. But Rhys remained certain there was something in that forest.

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