New Zealand’s highest nesting seabird is faster than a cheetah, breeds in a burrow and every year leaves New Zealand and flies away for the winter.

The bird is only found in New Zealand and has just 2 breeding colonies high in the Seaward Kaikoura Ranges. The hutton’s shearwater is classified as endangered and the race is on to protect these last 2 vital breeding colonies. But to do this properly, conservation workers and the Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust must find out where these birds go every year…

This film follows this story and uncovers one of New Zealand’s greatest migration mysteries…

where do they go?

Filmed over one year and capturing never before seen footage, the Hutton’s Shearwater film will premiere in Dunedin, New Zealand in mid November 2011.