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Story: Tītī − muttonbirding

Picking up equipment and birds

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Picking up equipment and birds

A large bag of gear and buckets of birds are being lifted by a helicopter onto Big South Cape Island. Helicopters have made it easier to bring in supplies and take out equipment and birds at the end of the season.

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Philip Lyver, Jamie Newman and the Rakiura Tītī Islands Administering Body, Tītī − muttonbirding – A personal account of muttonbirding, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/5557/picking-up-equipment-and-birds (accessed 26 June 2026).

Story by Philip Lyver, Jamie Newman and the Rakiura Tītī Islands Administering Body, published 2 March 2009.