10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
Like most Kiwis I was shocked by the pair of earthquakes that laid Christchurch low in 2010 and 2011. One of the ships helping the stricken town is the USS Sampson, the first US ship to visit New Zealand since the 1980s. Kaikoura is New Zealand’s finest birding destination, and seeing it brought low is a terrible blow.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 1, 2013
( When Duncan Wright contacted us back in 2010 to say that he thought we might enjoy showing some photos on 10,0000 Birds of Wellington’s big, boisterous parrots, he was 100% spot-on. Let’s revisit this gem about a nifty New Zealand parrot… ).
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2017
” Interestingly, the authors don’t attempt to give full descriptions of species, referring the user to the guide’s illustrations and the encyclopedic Handbook of Australian, New Zealand, and Antarctic Birds (which several of the authors also worked on). or birders who live there (but, how can you bird it all?).
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
While these groups were once considered two orders (Caprimulgiformes and Apodiformes), recent work (summarized in Mayr 2010 ) shows that swifts and hummingbirds emerged from within the night birds. Sister to this group is the Strisores : the “night birds” (excluding owls), swifts, and hummingbirds.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 3, 2018
New Zealand Grebe – Poliocephalus rufopectus. New Zealand King Shag – Phalacrocorax carunculatus. New Zealand Kaka – Nestor meridionalis. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. New Zealand Robin – Petroica australis. 15 Apr 2018. Lake Ngatu.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2018
New Zealand Grebe – Poliocephalus rufopectus. New Zealand King Shag – Phalacrocorax carunculatus. New Zealand Kaka – Nestor meridionalis. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. New Zealand Robin – Petroica australis. 15 Apr 2018. Lake Ngatu.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 4, 2018
New Zealand Grebe – Poliocephalus rufopectus. New Zealand King Shag – Phalacrocorax carunculatus. New Zealand Kaka – Nestor meridionalis. New Zealand Scaup – Aythya novaeseelandiae. New Zealand Robin – Petroica australis. 15 Apr 2018. Lake Ngatu.
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