The first in a series of four short films to promote the work of The Tawaki Project. I joined Dr Thomas Mattern, Ursula Ellenberg and the team for a week at their field site in Milford Sound, New Zealand, hoping to uncover new details about the elusive Fiordland crested penguin - one of the world’s least-understood seabirds. Challenging logistics and almost constant torrential rain made this a particularly difficult shoot, but the moments when everything came together made up for all the hardship.