Nocturnal Adventures

Scavenger HuntsBugs/ InvertebratesEcosystems and HabitatsOther Cool CreaturesNature Play
Written By Kim Manunui

Explore your backyard or local green space with your whānau by torchlight!

Start by watching this video:

Put on your headlamps, or grab your torches, and go! You might like to just explore your backyard, or head off to a bush walk nearby. If you live near caves, or a stream in the bush, you might like to look for gloworms. You can learn more about them HERE. Stay safe, go with an adult, and make sure you know the track if you are going outside of your backyard. It might be a good idea to check it out in the daylight first.

What can you hear? Although you probably won’t hear kiwi unless you live right next to a native forest or kiwi sanctuary, you might be lucky enough to hear a ruru (morepork). Listen to some common night-time bird sounds HERE. Kiwi calls are used to mark territory and to communicate with a partner over long distances.

Can you hear any bugs? Or creatures moving around under the cover of darkness?

What can you see? Make sure to look really closely at the leaves of plants (including underneath them), the ground, and in piles of wood! This is a great time for spiders to be building their webs too, so keep an eye out for this.

Lots of other creatures are also awake when it is dark, including many of Aotearoa’s introduced predator species such as hedgehogs, stoats, possums and cats. Check out this incredible VIDEO of a kiwi defending its nest against a possum. It helps that kiwi have extremely strong legs and quick reactions!

Let us know how your nocturnal adventure goes!

Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

The digital world is never static and neither are we.

And I say ‘we’ because I work with an awesome group of talented people who I gather together as required to complete a project.  Whatever your business, not-for-profit or individual needs are we gather the best team to get the job done.

Collaboratively we are creative, share sustainable values and work hard for great outcomes because that’s the buzz of satisfaction that drives us.

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