10,000 Birds
AUGUST 7, 2013
In his comment in last week’s post on the Marlborough Sounds , Beat writer Jochen described the New Zealand Fantail as one of the best birds in the world. wakawaka, the New Zealand Fantail is a delightful inhabitant of New Zealand, and one of my favourite local birds. Fantails don’t do necks.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2012
As 10,000 Birds’ New Zealand beat writer, I sometimes should write about New Zealand birds, but today I thought I’d talk about a bird that people thought was one but almost certainly wasn’t. It is one of the many species that went extinct in New Zealand, only for once it didn’t.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 16, 2013
Diving has taken me to places like Belize, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Egypt, places that coincidentally are fun to bird. Goat Island, off New Zealand’s Northland, was an amazing diving location without any birds. Kina, or Sea Urchin. I was a diver before I was a birder. Hiwihiwi ( Chironemus marmoratus ). Nudibranch.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
As introductions to tropical Pacific birding go, you could do a lot worse than Fiji. More importantly the airport in Nadi (pronounced Nandi) on the main island of Viti Levu is a major air hub and frequent stop on flights between the United States and Australia or New Zealand.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2014
Thing is, I saw, as I logged into eBird, that the milestone had already passed, which was odd, because I hadn’t seen many birds in New Zealand this year, and certainly would have remembered a lifer (my last was the Parasitic Jaeger ). Western Wattled Honeyeater, Nadi, Fiji Note the lack of wattle. Image by Tom Tarrant, CC.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2015
I worked with an enormous collection of bird skins in the collection of Te Papa (The National Museum of New Zealand) during my (unfinished) PhD. I remember looking at a single skin of a Long-legged warbler from Fiji, the only known specimen or record of its particular subspecies, the sum total of all knowledge about its kind.
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.
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