One of the great things about Meridian building a huge solar farm very close to our new house in Ruakākā is that first all kinds of investigations take place.

That's how I came to know that all the birds listed below have been observed within a radius of about 5 Km of our house. 🐦

Screenshot of text given below.

As well as matuku, a number of other Threatened and At-Risk species of birds have been recorded within the Proposal site, namely, spotless crake/pūweto, dabchick/weweia, brown teal/pateke, banded rail/moho pereru, pied shag/karuhiruhi, little shag/kawaupaka, little black shag/kawau tui and pipit/pihoihoi as well as South Island pied oystercatcher/torea and Northern New Zealand dotterel/tuturiwhatu.

The white dot on the map below showing where various birds were spotted is 2 Km in a straight line from our house.

Map of bird sightings.

I'm specially excited that Bitterns | Matuku are in the area.

I also love the special engineering provision to help prevent cars and bittern colliding as the birds fly to a nearby location:

A 2.0 m earth bund and vegetation planted on top will ensure birds flying directly from the wetland will have sufficient height to avoid the road corridor as they will need to gain elevation to pass over the vegetated bund.