Welcome to the Coast Road Dawn Chorus

We are a group of backyard trappers and community trapping projects along the Coast Road from Fox River to Runanga. We operate under the Incorporated Society, Coast Road Dawn Chours Inc. Membership is a $5 one-off payment. We welcome new members. Please contact David Moore if you would like to join.

Host a Trap on the Barrytown Flats

This is a community rat/stoat trapline along the Coast Road of the Barrytown Flats from 17 Mile Bluff to Razorback Point.

If you live on this section of the Coast Road and would like to host a trap, we have traps available now for allocation.

The trap needs to go somewhere along your road frontage e.g. at/ near your letterbox. The trap is free but will remain the property of the Society. As the trap host you will be responsible for checking, rebaiting and clearing (preferably twice a month), and reporting on monthly catches. No one will enter your property to check the trap unless you specifically ask them to do so.

Training on safe use of the trap will be given when you collect it.

Please Host a Trap and help our native birds.

Contact Suzanne or David at dawnchorus@westcoast.org.nz or text 028 415 6994