10,000 Birds
MAY 6, 2015
One of the joys of going home to my parent’s house in the UK is the array of bird feeders outside their kitchen. Being the only house in quite a large area gives them a great catchment area to draw birds from, and turns up more than the occasional rarity. I don’t feed birds much here in New Zealand.
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.
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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. My reasons for doing so were actually bird related, namely a PhD in bird evolution, the less said about the better. New Zealand is simultaneously birdy and not birdy.
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. Taxonomy goes through fits of splitting and lumping but a quick look at, for example, the recent changes at the IOC World Bird List shows the preveling mood in favour of splitting. But the prevailing Zeitgeist wasn’t enough to save our gull.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2013
Not because you generally see many birds while diving, although the experience of seeing shearwaters flying underwater while cage diving, as I once did, was one I think most birders would enjoy. Diving has taken me to places like Belize, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Egypt, places that coincidentally are fun to bird. Nudibranch.
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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