Our Changing World: Aotea’s black petrels

In-depth reporter Kate Newton heads to Aotea Great Barrier Island to meet the black petrels that breed there. 

For almost 30 years Biz Bell of Wildlife Management International has been leading a team banding the birds before they make their first epic journey.  

But only a handful of the banded black petrels have ever come back, and the team are trying to figure out what is happening to them at sea.  

First Biz explains what it is about these birds that has captivated her.