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Weka populations can persist in highly modified habitats, but they have disappeared from huge areas of their former range, suggesting that they can adapt to a wide range of conditions but are particularly vulnerable to threats.
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Weka and populations
The North Island Weka ( Gallirallus australis greyi ) is represented by original populations in Northland and Poverty Bay, and by liberations elsewhere from that stock.
Weka and can
The breeding season varies, but when food is plentiful, Weka can raise up to four broods throughout the whole year.
Pest control operations sometimes kill Weka, as they have ground foraging habits vulnerable to poison baits, and traps are laid in a way that Weka can reach.
Weka and modified
Weka occupy areas such as forests, sub-alpine grassland, sand dunes, rocky shores and modified semi-urban environments.
Weka and they
The Buff Weka ( Gallirallus australis hectori ) formerly inhabited the eastern districts of the South Island but is now confined to Chatham Island and Pitt Island to which it was introduced in the early 1900s, and where they are widely hunted and eaten, being considered ' introduced '.
Weka are problematic in conservation ; some subspecies are threatened, but have been a problem to other threatened wildlife on offshore islands, especially when introduced to an island that they would not naturally inhabit.
Early European explorers and settlers frequently encountered and utilised Weka ; they were called " bush hens ".
Weka and have
Weka have sturdy legs and reduced wings.
Weka are significant to some Māori iwi who admire their curiosity and feisty, bold personality, traits which have led to them being relatively easy to catch.
Ferrymead Railway and Diesel Traction Group locomotives and carriages have participated in each of these steam-based festivals, held on the Weka Pass Railway, except for the 2003 event.
With the little locomotive of no use, Weka Pass received approval from Ravensdown Fertiliser ( who had taken over Kempthorne Prosser ) to sell the locomotive to the Plains Railway at Ashburton, who have since restored it in NZR livery as ' T < sup > R </ sup > 119 '.
Weka and from
The Western Weka ( Gallirallus australis australis ) is found mainly in the northern and western regions of the South Island from Nelson to Fiordland.
Drought has been implicated in the disappearance of Weka from some areas.
* Information from the Weka Pass Railway on the preserved members of the original A class built by Dübs & Co .:
* Information from the Weka Pass Railway on the preserved members of the F class built by Dübs & Co .:
There had been interest from a number of people in preserving part of this old branch line particularly in the scenic Weka Pass.
* Waiau Branch, a Canterbury branch line railway in service from 1882 to 1978: see also Weka Pass Railway
The Weka Pass Railway has its base in Waipara, and runs on 12 kilometres of track between here and Waikari over the former route of the Waiau Branch, a branch line railway that diverged from the Main North Line and ran to Waiau.
After defeating a dragon like creature and knocking Weka Dart out of a tree, she has a frightening encounter with the shade of Brona, the most legendary evil from the Four Lands, and Grianne is captured by a party of Demons.
Weka and their
Where the Weka is relatively common, their furtive curiosity leads them to search around houses and camps for food scraps, or anything unfamiliar and transportable.
The Department of Conservation's Weka recovery plan, approved in 1999, aims to improve the conservation status of threatened Weka, clarify the status of data deficient Weka, maintain the non-threatened status of other Weka, and eventually restore all Weka to their traditional ranges as a significant component of the ecosystems.
The town has many landmarks including Kapiti College, in which Peter Jackson ( New Zealand Filmmaker ) and Christian Cullen ( Rugby Union Footballer ) received their education, St. Mark's Church, the vast sandy beach ( popular for walks, fishing and people on holiday ), The Raumati Beach Shopping Village, Kapiti Island and Weka Park.
Weka and former
Grianne's only hope for survival lies in the Straken Lord's former minion, Weka Dart.
Weka and range
Distinguished by dark red-brown and black streaking on the breast, the Western Weka has two distinct colour phases, that of the southernmost range showing a greater degree of black.
Weka and are
RapidMiner, LIONsolver, KNIME, Weka, ODM, Shogun toolbox, Orange, Apache Mahout, scikit-learn, mlpy, MCMLL, and OpenCV are software suites containing a variety of machine learning algorithms.
Weka are sturdy brown birds, about the size of a chicken.
Weka are important in the bush as seed dispersers, distributing seeds too large for smaller berry-eating birds.
Weka are classed as a vulnerable species.
Weka are unable to withstand the current pressures faced in both the North Island and South Island.
Predation by ferrets, cats and dogs are a threat to adult Weka ; stoats and ferrets are a threat to chicks ; stoats and rats are a threat to eggs.
Tales of Weka stealing shiny items and bags of sugar are part of New Zealand folklore.
Other wagons include examples of stock wagons, several vans including two representatives of the Z class ' roadsider ' vans, tank wagons, and eight Y < sup > B </ sup >/ Y < sup > C </ sup > ballast wagons, which are kept in working order for track maintenance duties through the Weka Pass.
An assortment of birds found in the North Island are present at the National Park except for the Weka.
Weka and threats
The Department of Conservation identifies eight main threats to Weka.
Weka and .
The Weka or woodhen ( Gallirallus australis ) is a flightless bird species of the rail family.
Weka usually lay eggs between August and January ; both sexes help to incubate.
The common name Weka is a Māori word.
Johann Georg Wagler's suggestion of the Ocydromus genus in 1830 to describe each Weka as a species was generally adopted.
However, Weka were later decided as a single species in the Gallirallus genus with four subspecies.
Western Weka photographed on the West Coast, New Zealand near Karamea.
The Stewart Island Weka ( Gallirallus australis scotti ) is smaller than the other subspecies and, like the Western Weka, has two colour phases ; a chestnut form-similar to the chestnut-phase Western Weka-and a black phase which is not as dark as the black Western Weka.
On average, female Weka lay three creamy or pinkish eggs blotched with brown and mauve.
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