You can help the North Island robin
North Island robin
There are a couple of ways you can protect robins if they are present in your region:
- Fence forest blocks to prevent them being grazed by stock. This will enhance their value to robins and other native fauna.
- Controlling predators (possums, feral cats, rats and stoats) by trapping and poisoning.
By controlling these predators to low numbers enables robins to breed much more successfully than otherwise (70% compared to 20%). As a result, within the first year of such an operation, the robin population often doubles in number, and most males are able to obtain a mate.
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