Hutton's Shearwater aplenty!

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This is scuba Rach practicing her scuba diving techniques. Yes the bubbles are from her tank. Good job the water here is only 4ft deep.

Here we are holding a Hutton's shearwater chick! This bird has a little way to go until he can leave the burrow.

This might be not how mum and dad Shearwater do it but its by far the best way for us! Rach is holding the beak open until Lee gets the tube down and then she can let go of the top mandible.

The mixture in the syringe is liquidised sardine. Looks like coffee milkshake but definitely does not smell of it!

We had 2 feeding teams and Paul here taking a picture of the other group. This shearwater is patiently waiting to be weighed.

Here he is after being weighed. Like a new aged 'chav' with his thick jacket and funny hair style.

This work was done by the Department of Conservation here in Kaikoura, as this shearwater is just finding out.