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Road birding in New Zealand

10,000 Birds

So, inspired by a similar article on road birding in Thailand, I present road birding in New Zealand. Feral Turkey are also quite common. This New Zealand endemic, more than any other, has benefited from the clearing of forest and pairs are commonly seen everywhere you go in New Zealand, often with their large families in tow.

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Duncan’s 2014 List

10,000 Birds

In many ways that seems to be the pattern, as the major holiday breaks for New Zealand are over December and January; the year before I started in tropical Queensland and ended in Thailand and the UK. Species are listed by family according to the order eBird spits them out to me in. LARIDAE (GULLS AND TERNS). COLUMBIDAE (PIGEONS).

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