10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2018
This weeks posting finds me north of the Whananaki area, which is north of Auckland, New Zealand. What an incredible place, and as a bonus, it is loaded with birds. Unfortunately, there have been no new birds that I can check off my “Wish List” but if you have to hang out in a place, this is pretty awesome.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
A European Starling in New Zealand made the news this week. This particular species is not native to New Zealand (similar to its status in North America). The bird is now bonded to humans and an ambassador to her class and the bird has quite the vocabular y. Birds starlings'
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2021
Last year there was a spate of books specifically about bird “behavior” – though one might well say that every book about birds, from field guides on up, is about behavior in some way or another. The page or two of text for each bird has some good stuff, not all pertaining to migration.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2011
Although the only pine forests found in New Zealand are recent plantations of Northern Hemisphere Pinus species like the Monterey pine, the country does have native conifers. This is the kauri , Agathis austalis , the largest tree in New Zealand. This is the kauri , Agathis austalis , the largest tree in New Zealand.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2017
It’s Christmas Bird Count season, and if you know Christmas Bird Counts you have probably heard the tale of how Frank Chapman invented this winter tradition to replace the older and considerably less optimal for birds tradition of the Christmas side hunt. And in Ireland, well… In Ireland they killed Wrens.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2011
Since New Zealand is currently consumed by rugby fever and we haven’t the time to indulge in anything so tedious as birdwatching, I thought I’d dive back under the sea to introduce one of New Zealand’s most iconic aquatic organisms, the Australasian Snapper ( Pagrus auratus ).
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2018
After leaving Africa, I was fearing a real let down in my birding. New Zealand had been good, Australia was incredible, and South Africa was almost life altering. This leg of the trip was for the most part all about my father-in-law. Where do you go from there? Well, for us, we went to Doha, Qatar.
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