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Kakapo Nesting Table

The following is a nesting table so you can keep track which kakapo are mating and who has laid eggs!

Some interpretation hints:

Eggs / Fostering and movements:

All eggs were fertile unless they are stated as infertile.

HR = chick was handreared

ede = early dead embryo

mde = mid dead embryo

lde = late dead embryo

Mated with:

Males in bold were the successful fathers (where more than one male mated with the female)

AI = Artificial Insemination

Chicks:

M = male

F = female

2008 Season: Female	Mated with	No. of eggs	Fostering and movements	Status of nest	Chicks
Lisa	Basil	2 eggs	One egg died, chick died in nest	Eggs and chick removed
Rakiura	Ox	2 eggs	Eggs removed for incubation and HR	Fledged	Toititi (F) Mokopuna(deceased)
Aparima	Jimmy	2 eggs	1 egg broken by mother, other rescued for incubation and HR	Fledged	JEM (F)
Sue	Basil	1 egg	Egg removed for incubation and HR	Fledged	Rooster (M)
Cyndy	Bill	3 eggs	Eggs removed for incubation and HR	Fledged	Weheruatanga o te po (F) Elwin (M) Jester (M)
2009 Season: Female	Mated with	No. of eggs	Fostering and movements	Status of nest	Chicks
Alice	Manu (x2)	3 eggs(all infertile)	Eggs removed. Foster mum for Bella egg#2	Fledged Bellas chick
Aparima	Ben + Jimmy (x2)	3 eggs (2 infertile)	Eggs removed. #1 ede	Nest closed
Aranga	Blades + Lionel	3 eggs	#1 ede. #2 mde. #3 fostered to Ellie	Nest closed	Jack (M)
Bella	Blades + Ben	3 eggs	#1 fostered to Heather. #2 fostered to Alice. #3 retained. Foster mum for Pearl egg#1	Nest closed. #1+#3 HR. #2 Fledged with Alice. Pearl #1 died at 21days.	Tiaka (F) Hillary (M) Roha (F)
Cyndy	Sinbad + Ox	3 eggs	#3 ede	Fledged	Ngatapa (M) Queenie (F)
Ellie	Luke (x2)	1 egg (infertile)	Foster mum for Aranga egg#3	Fledged Aranga's chick
Esperance	Whiskas, Ben + Lionel	3 eggs	#1 + #2 ede. #3 fostered to Alice	Nest closed. #3 HR	Huhana (F)
Flossie	Whiskas (x2)	3 eggs	#2 broken in nest. #3 fostered to Jean. Foster mum to Rakiura chick #3.	Nest closed. Chick #1 HR from 13-28 days then fledged by Jean. #3 hatched by Jean, moved to Heather, HR from 27 days. Rakiura #3 HR	Wiremu (M) Scratch (M)
Fuchsia	Piripi + Smoko (x2)	2 eggs	#1 broken in nest	Nest closed. #2 HR after attack in nest by adult male.	Bluster-Murphy (M)
Hananui	Merty	3 eggs	#1 mde. #2 + #3 fostered to Hoki	Nest closed. #2 + #3 HR	Wharetutu (F) Wolf (M)
Heather	Nog + Blades	2 eggs	#1 fostered to Sue. Foster mum to Bella #1 (later to Jean) and Flossie#3 chick from 9 days.	#1 HR. #2 Fledged. Flossie #3 HR	Awhero (M) Guapo (M)
Hoki	Manu	1 egg (infertile)	Foster mum to Hananui #2 + #3	Nest closed. Hananui chicks HR
Jean	Jimmy (x2)	2 eggs (1 infertile)	#1 ede. Foster mum to Sue #3, Flossies #3 (later to Heather), Bellas chick #1 at 5 days, Flossies chick #1 at 29 days.	Fledged Flossie #1. Sue #3 HR. Bella #1 HR.
Kuihi	Barnard + Ox (x2)	3 eggs	#1 + #2 fostered to Ruth. #3 to Lisa.	Nest closed. 3 chicks HR.	Awarua (F) Waihopai (M) Hokonui (M)
Lisa nest 1	Basil (x2)	3 eggs (1 infertile)	#1 ede. #2 lde	Nest closed
Lisa nest 2	Basil (x2)	3 eggs	#2 + #3 to incubator. Foster mum to Kuihi #3	Nest closed. 3 chicks HR. Kuihi #3 HR.	Tiwhiri (F) Purity (F) Hurihuri (M)
Margaret-Maree	Merv + Merty	2 eggs		# 1 Fledged. #2 HR	Millie (F) Moss (M)
Nora	Lionel (x2)	3 eggs (3 infertile)		Nest closed
Pearl	Felix + AI with Stumpy	3 eggs	#1 fostered to Bella. #2 + #3 fostered to Wendy.	Nest closed. #1 chick died at 26 days. #2 + #3 HR.	Apopo (deceased) Juanma (M) Jemma (F)
Rakiura	Barnard + Whiskas	4 eggs	#1 fostered to Ellie. #2 ede. #3 fostered to Solstice. #4 to incubator then Flossie.	Nest closed. 3 chicks HR.	Tamahou (M) Tiaho (M) Te Atapo (M)
Ruth	Sass	1 egg	Fostered to Sarah. Foster mum to Kuihi #1 + #2.	Nest closed. Own chick died at 6 days. Kuihi chicks HR	Raupeka (deceased)
Sandra	Piripi	2 eggs (2 infertile)	Foster mum to Solstice #3, later to incubator	Nest closed
Sarah	Manu (x2)	3 eggs (1 infertile)	#2 to incubator. Foster mum to Ruth #1.	Nest closed. 2 chicks HR. Ruth #1 died at 6 days.	Sarah 2 (deceased) Paddy (M)
Solstice	Felix + AI with Smoko	3 eggs	#2 ede. #3 lde. Foster mum to Rakiura #4.	Nest closed. 1 chick HR. Rakiura #4 HR	Ra (F)
Sue	Blades + Basil	3 eggs (1 infertile)	#3 fostered to Jean. Foster mum to Heather #1.	Nest closed. 2 chicks HR. Heather#1 HR	Hinemoa (F) George (M)
Tumeke	Smoko (x2)	3 eggs (2 infertile)	#1 ede.	Nest closed.
Wendy	Manu	2 eggs	both eggs ede. Foster mum to Pearl #2 + #3	Nest closed. Pearl chicks HR
Zephyr	Felix	2 eggs		Nest closed. 2 chicks HR	Evohe (F) Maestro (M)

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