Mrs Dianne John, of Picton, MNZM for services to ornithology
Dianne John has been a member of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand (now BirdsNZ) for several years as a core member of her local branch and former committee member. She helped with the Society’s monthly bird counts on Lake Grasmere. She was the Regional Recorder, collecting and collating data and entering it into the national databases. She has counted shorebirds during river surveys and helped with various bird banding projects. She was a member of the team who monitored the success of the Maud Island fluttering shearwater translocation. Through Wildlife Management International, Mrs John has assisted with several monitoring and banding projects and translocations.