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Auckland Island pig A captive Auckland Island pig at Staglands Wildlife Reserve, Akatarawa Valley, New Zealand Country of origin New Zealand Distribution Auckland Island Traits Weight Male: average 41.7 kilograms (92 lb) Female: average 37.3 kilograms (82 lb) Pig Sus domesticus The Auckland Island pig is a feral (but now conservation-managed) landrace of domestic pig (Sus scrofa) found on ...
Projects carried out by the RBCSNZ have included expeditions to the subantarctic Auckland Islands group to rescue live specimens of the introduced but long-isolated populations of Enderby Island Rabbits, [1] Enderby Island Cattle [2] and Auckland Island Pigs [3] for captive breeding in New Zealand before their eradication from the Auckland Islands in the course of conservation management.
Many of these species have ranges restricted to the Waitākere Ranges, Great Barrier Island, Little Barrier Island and the Mokohinau Islands. A number of species have restricted ranges that include areas outside of the Auckland region, such as Buller's shearwater and Pycroft's petrel , or organisms such as the brown teal / pateke and stitchbird ...
The Auckland Islands ... other useful animals and seed were brought to the islands by Captains Musgrave and Norman 1865, returning to search for castaways; ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded on the Auckland Islands .The avifauna of the Auckland Islands include a total of 123 species.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.
Gibson's albatross breeds only in the subantarctic Auckland Islands archipelago of New Zealand. Breeding females feed mainly in the Tasman Sea , while the males forage further south in the sub Australian or mid Pacific sectors of the Southern Ocean between latitudes of 30° and 50° S, especially the Roaring Forties where the weather systems ...
Birds of the Auckland Islands (1 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Fauna of the Auckland Islands" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
The New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri), once known as Hooker's sea lion, and as pakake (for both male and female) or whakahao (male) and kake (female) in Māori, [2] is a species of sea lion that is endemic to New Zealand and primarily breeds on New Zealand's subantarctic Auckland and Campbell islands, and have in recent years been slowly breeding and recolonising around the coast of ...