Grey-faced petrels are back nesting on the rugged clifftops above the coast at Bream Head, but work is needed to protect them from predators and ensure their eggs hatch.
With advice and assistance from New Zealand seabird expert and Ocean Beach resident Cathy Mitchell, Bream Head Conservation Trust ranger Adam Willetts and volunteers surveyed three known grey-faced petrel sites and found 10 adult birds sitting in the burrows.
They are most likely each incubating an egg.
This is exactly the same number discovered in the 2016 breeding season.
Tragically, those eggs all survived to chick stage before becoming victim to what appeared to be predation by stoats.