 I'm a Ph.D. student at the University of Canterbury, and I research the Black Stilt, or Kaki. So Kaki used to be found on the North Island and the South Island. They're braided river specialists, so it's not a species you can put on an island in New Zealand, a small offshore island. It has to be in the mainland braided rivers. And their decline was mostly due to habitat loss and the introduction of mammalian predators, so stoats, cats, hedgehogs. There are less than 100 left, and they're dependent on a captive breeding program, where you have individuals brought into captivity, raised in captivity, and released back into the wild. And an important component of that is looking at the relatedness of individuals when you pair them up. This is very similar to matchmaking, kind of like the show Married at First Sight. Instead of looking at personality types of the birds, we look at how related they are to one another, the end goal being to choose distantly related birds to pair so that we reduce in breeding, and we also maximize diversity in the population so they can adapt down the road. So I'm trying to find the best way, most effective and efficient way, to pair up Kaki. And we're looking at the pedigree, or a family tree, to estimate relatedness. We're looking at DNA markers, either genetic tools or genomic tools, which look at thousands of markers, to find the best way to pair up our Kaki. And the end goal is to apply this information to the Kaki Recovery Program to help recover the species, but it's also applicable to over 20 captive breeding programs in New Zealand and over 400 around the world.