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News from the tūī catch team today, working in an Akaroa garden on Smith Street, is that 15 more unbanded tūī were caught and banded, and three previously banded birds were re-caught and released. Those included Trevor, the oldest known tūī on Banks Peninsula. He was banded as an adult back in April 2013 when he was already at least two years old. He’ll be 14 or 15 years old now and is likely to be one of the first generation of wild birds that descended from the Maud Island tūī that were released at Hinewai in 2009 and 2010. #birds #nz #conservation #tui