Kiwi experiments

Leading up to our camp up the mountain, We have been doing experiments to see if the road noise interferes with us hearing kiwi calls. We used a phone and a Bluetooth speaker to create the sound of the calls of both the male and female kiwi call. We had to record how many times we could hear the female and male calls. Every time we heard one of the calls we had to put a dash down and then we did a graph with all the information. There was a person at twenty metre intervals recording how many calls they heard. Then we had to go onto an I-pad and make another graph showing the results of every test our group done. We are doing this for Taranaki Kiwi Trust for a research project that they are including schools in for the first time. There were other tests being done by other groups as well like durability, wind interference, range, depth and more. Doing all these tests will help us on our camp up the mountain so we can see what interferes with hearing a kiwi call and finding a kiwi. The data that we collect will be used to see how many kiwi are still on the mountain.