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DOC's Threatened Species Ambassador Nicola Toki discusses the critter of the week, the blackstilt.
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Heavy snow has damaged two aviaries used to house the critically endangered blackstilt (kaki) near Twizel.
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DOC said there were only 31 blackstilt in the wild 25 years ago, now there were 106.
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Listen to the blackstilt, a critically endangered species with a breeding population confined to the Mackenzie Basin of South Canterbury and North Otago.
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Bird of the Year also featured on Tinder for the first time, with Shelly the kakī ( blackstilt) attracting 500 matches across New Zealand.
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The kākāpō was runner up with 3772 votes and the kakī ( blackstilt) came in third with 2995 votes.