Mutton Bird Island - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Each year our family makes the trip to Big South Cape Island or Taukihepa, it is an offshore island of New Zealand to the west of the southern tip of Stewart Island. The island has no permanent inhabitants but our family and other muttonbirders visit the island each year to exercise our traditional Maori rights.
In Pt 1 My Brother and I make the 40min travel to the island from Invercargill, and then we are unloading our gear and food from the boat by helicopter to our house.
-This video is intended for my whanau and extended whanau that can't make it to the island to show what it is like down there-
Id love to be a part of the Muttonbird season, I don't have any rights to the Island, but I respect the customs as a Southlander/ New Zealander. Plenty of these birds, and is a season of harvest for a select few with family rights that go way back. Not a bloody free for all slaughter. Great video cobber. I got a mate who is allowed to go over and my Uncle went over as an electrician a few years back and both had cool yarns.
Go the Warriors 2023, good gathering this year mate.
Hayden.
Awsone whenaunga great mahi
omfg my family goes the TO its so beautiful and im going there in a few weeks ahhhhhhhh
Great work Stan. I'm looking forward to future seasons and ongoing developments as they occur for your whanau
* The purpose of this video is to showcase the experience of being on the island for my whanau and extended whanau who are unable to visit in person.
Perfect brother, a much needed and useful resource for those that cant/don't make it
Very interesting place and traditions
awesome Stan, your mum told us about your videos in my facebook group, so hard to share. would love to see more. A wonderful tradition.
Does it bother anyone to yank the adorable "fuzzy" chicks out of their burrows? Especially while they are completely defenseless. Just so they can be meal for a human, instead of being allowed to live out their impressive life history? Or what about the "rama"? Young shearwaters flapping their wings in preparation to migrate, only to be clubbed or otherwise "dropped" inhumanely during this element of the harvest? Does anyone in NZ have any appreciation for these birds other than for this?
Hi Frank, Thanks for your comment. It does not bother me that we harvest the chicks as all of my family eat meat, they are much better than factory farmed chickens/pigs/cattle ect.. what does bother me is the people that have forgotten how special these islands are and that have no interest in preserving them for future generations. I am unsure what you mean by the clubbing of chicks or the "dropping"?? of them as clubs have been banned for many years. If you would like more answers to any questions just send me a private message and I will do my best to sort an answer for you.
Bobby calves are killed days after they are born so you can have veal etc and day old male chickens are thrown into a mincing machine alive and made into cat food for your cat that kills our native birds
Taste like chicken but in its own 😋🫣🙂
Oh taukihepa, i miss you. We will be catching up soon.