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10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
New Zealand has a very odd biota these days. They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. So that New Zealand would end up with quite a few species of animal not originally found here is hardly surprising of itself.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
As I mentioned in passing last week, I’ve just passed nine years since I moved to the Land of the Long White Cloud, Aotearoa, New Zealand. New Zealand is simultaneously birdy and not birdy. And while New Zealand has lost many species, it has also been a world leader in working out how to save those that remain.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2015
I don’t feed birds much here in New Zealand. Leaving aside the jingoism (as one always must with that paper) the important point is that the lessons of New Zealand are not necessarily applicable to the UK, or America, or indeed anywhere other than New Zealand and the other islands of the Pacific.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2012
The New Zealand Pigeon , often known by its Maori name Kereru , or colloquially as woodpigeon, is a large and conspicuous part of New Zealand’s avifauna. As pigeons go it is very large, measuring up to 50 cm, and it is one of two species of pigeon endemic to New Zealand.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2016
I almost missed it, but New Zealand lost another endemic species recently. Hell, we gained a new endemic in New Zealand just a few weeks back when the Stewart Island Shag was split into the Otago Shag and Foveaux Shag. But the prevailing Zeitgeist wasn’t enough to save our gull. Good night sweet prince.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2013
Goat Island, off New Zealand’s Northland, was an amazing diving location without any birds. Particular highlights were a massive Long-tailed Stingray , pipefish (long relatives of the sea horse), nudibranchs, goatfish and a New Zealand Eagle Ray. But that is actually by the by, because diving is its own reward.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
Little Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland was already one of the most important offshore reserves in New Zealand. This week it emerged that the island is important for another rare New Zealand bird, the critically endangered New Zealand Petrel.
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