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11May
Ohakea worker goes above and beyond to keep fearless dotterels flying
A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) base bird champion has no qualms about cradling bird eggs in his hands amid the busy comings and goings of helicopters, jets and other aircraft at a working milit...
01Nov
Firearms Safety presentation by Nik from Firearms Safe
NZAA- Firearm Safety Presentation.mp4 (sharepoint.com)...

20May
Significant Strike Event with an ATR 72 and 13 Black Billed Gulls
Invercargill Airport Black Billed Gulls take shelter on the airfield during heavy rain and wind events. An Aircraft impacted 13 birds on the takeoff roll. Scaring was being conducted prior to the Airc...

28Apr
Spur-Winged Plover Courtship Behavior
Spur-Winged Plovers are one of New Zealand Aviation’s highest risk species. They are dense birds weighing around 360 grams, although they are normally described to group in pairs, in many parts ...

01Dec
New Zealand Dotterel at Auckland Airport
Threatened species sharing New Zealand’s busiest aerodrome. For most airports bird monitoring is all about keeping birds away from the aerodrome. Wildlife management strategies focus on minimising b...

11Nov
The AAWHG workshop
The Australian Aviation Wildlife Hazard Group held its second biennial workshop on 23 and 24 July, generously hosted by Sydney Airport Corporation at the Kingsford Smith Suite in the International Ter...

20Aug
Welcome to our new website
Welcome to the New Zealand Airports Wildlife Hazard Group. Please feel free to look around. Membership to the group provides special access to resources and secure areas of the website including recom...

17Jun
AAWHG workshop – July 2019
Save the date and register! Registrations are now open for the Australian Aviation Wildlife Hazard Group (AAWHG) workshop to be held in Sydney, 23-24 July 2019. The workshop venue, the Kingsford Smith...