10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Kiwi, New Zealand icons par excellence , are rather endangered. The suite of predators introduced to New Zealand, on the whole, can’t do to much damage to adult kiwi. A friend of mine, before she moved to New Zealand, thought that kiwi would be the size of kiwi fruit, a lemon sized speciality of the area.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 23, 2016

I almost missed it, but New Zealand lost another endemic species recently. Hell, we gained a new endemic in New Zealand just a few weeks back when the Stewart Island Shag was split into the Otago Shag and Foveaux Shag. But the prevailing Zeitgeist wasn’t enough to save our gull. Good night sweet prince.

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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.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2013

One of the nice things about Christmas in New Zealand is that we get to experience it in the summer, when things are pretty kicking here. Since I started this blog I’ve wanted to do a post on pohutukawa, or New Zealand Christmas tree, and every Christmas I have been away. Birds New Zealand Wellington'

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2018

We have finally broken away from Christchurch, New Zealand. The afternoon was spent fishing for Blue Cod, and diving for Lobsters, or Crayfish as they are called here in New Zealand. These Tomtit’s are fast becoming one of my favorite New Zealand Birds. We headed south for the small city Te Anu.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2011

So, inspired by a similar article on road birding in Thailand, I present road birding in New Zealand. As with any kind of road birding, birding as a car passenger in New Zealand generally restricts the kind of birds you’re going to see. So that is birding on the road in New Zealand.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2015

I don’t feed birds much here in New Zealand. Leaving aside the jingoism (as one always must with that paper) the important point is that the lessons of New Zealand are not necessarily applicable to the UK, or America, or indeed anywhere other than New Zealand and the other islands of the Pacific.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Goat Island, off New Zealand’s Northland, was an amazing diving location without any birds. Particular highlights were a massive Long-tailed Stingray , pipefish (long relatives of the sea horse), nudibranchs, goatfish and a New Zealand Eagle Ray. But that is actually by the by, because diving is its own reward.

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Critter News

JANUARY 5, 2010

New Zealand and Australia are joining forces to carry out research on whales using non-lethal methods, in an attempt to challenge Japan's hunting programme. Tags: australia whales new zealand Japan. It's non-lethal. They will also be assessing the impact of climate change on the whales.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

New Zealand has had its share of rediscovered birds too. The most recent rediscovery represents one of the longer absences from our attention, however, that of the New Zealand Storm-petrel. A blurry photo of the New Zealand Storm-petrel ( Oceanites maorianus, or is it?),

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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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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2021

The Kea – New Zealand’s enigmatic alpine parrot. It is also strange, perhaps, that the subject of this short excellent video series, is not from Australia but from the true ‘land of birds’ across the ditch from Australia – New Zealand or Aotearoa. The Tui – a New Zealand endemic.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2011

New Zealand has turned many of its offshore islands into introduced-predator-free sanctuaries for native wildlife but Stoats , also known as Ermine or Short-Tailed Weasel , which were originally introduced to New Zealand to combat the introduced rabbit population, recently showed up on two different offshore islands, one of which was over five kilometers (..)

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Reddit Animals

AUGUST 9, 2022

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2011

In New Zealand, however, the austral winter is not a particularly strong, due to the strong maritime influence and proximity to the equator. Combined with New Zealand’s isolation this means there are not the strong seasonal shifts in birdlife here that you’d find in an equivalent area in North America or Europe.

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Reddit Animals

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

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Critter News

MARCH 1, 2010

Tags: australia whales new zealand whaling.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2021

Exisle Publishing, Chatswood, Australia and Dunedin, New Zealand. Getting Closer: Rediscovering nature through bird photography. By Paul Sorrell. UK £19.99, US $27.99, CAN $37.99. ISBN 978-1-925820-63-8. The post “Getting Closer” — a book review appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

New Zealand is currently in the grip of a government mandated rebranding episode. No matter, because New Zealand is also releasing new banknotes, and these are much more up this blog’s alley. This lovely species was recently discovered to be a recent arrival to the mainland of New Zealand.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 31, 2012

“Sandra,” a Kakapo first identified over twenty years ago, was found dead after her transmitter harness tangled in some vegetation. The transmitters are used so biologists can track the critically endangered bird.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

If you’re into family ticks, and into armchair ticks, well, I hope you’ve been to New Zealand, because the island just got another endemic bird family. That the three species of mohoua (genus Mohoua ) are New Zealand’s newest family is hardly a surprise. Say hello to the Mohouidae.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2020

New Zealand Pigeon ( Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae ). New Zealand Falcon ( Falco novaeseelandiae ). New Zealand Bellbird ( Anthornis melanura ). New Zealand Bellbird ( Anthornis melanura ). New Zealand Fantail ( Rhipidura fuliginosa ). Keep your distance. But look, no waterfowl.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2018

For any of you that read my posting last week, you know that I am hanging around here on the North Island of New Zealand, and all forward progress has stalled once we arrived here at Whananaki. New Zealand is really not over populated with owls, but they do have a great little bird, called a Morepork, or Southern Boobook.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

As I said last week , I’ve decided to try and knock off a few of the New Zealand endemics and specialities that I haven’t seen before over the coming year, and the first place that sprung to mind was pretty close, just across the Cook Strait in the Marlborough Sounds. Spotted Shags are endemic to New Zealand.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

So the massive project I’m working on reaches its climax this weekend, and my laptop is still broken… so here is a New Zealand bird story that is in the New York Times of all things! Birds behaviour bird behaviour math New Zealand endemics' A North Island Robin on a cache.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2017

Mainland island sanctuaries are popular in New Zealand for any number of reasons. Dunedin sells itself as the wildlife capital of New Zealand, in no small part due to its impressive seabird colonies (more of which later this month), but in Orokonui they now have a sanctuary to find rarer forest birds. New Zealand Pigeons.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The White-faced Heron also occurs in New Zealand. They can be found in a variety of habitats during the year. They are the most widely spread heron in Australia and can be found across the mainland, Tasmania and most coastal islands. Before our ephemeral lakes started to dry out there were often White-faced Herons present.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2013

Anzac Day started as a commemoration day for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps’ disastrous Gallipoli Campaign during the First World War. This provides me a roundabout way to discuss one of the quirks of New Zealand, the name of her people. Royal New Zealand Air Force roundel.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2016

This isn’t because I don’t like them, on the contrary, they rate as one of New Zealand’s cutest birds, and I’m a big fan of cute. Tomtits, as you might expect from New Zealand, aren’t actual t**s (Paridae) but are one of New Zealand’s four Australasian robins (also not robins).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2014

Does my field guide of New Zealand birds have the same birds as my Handbook of the Birds of the World or the IUCN? Not so hard off California, where there are only three (and quite firmly so), but kind of tricky off New Zealand where there are something between lots and many types of albatrosses. Does it hell.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2023

Some birders from outside of Europe were quick to jump the train and show the very best of their countries, so we have quite detailed coverage of birding areas in e.g. little-visited Cuba or endemics-rich Namibia, as well as the well-known New Zealand. What is hiding in the future?

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

I’ve stated in the past that I thought that the Pukeko, or Purple Swamphen, is New Zealand’s most iconic bird after the kiwi. Tui are large members of the honeyeater family, one of two species found in New Zealand. Tui ( Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae ) on New Zealand Flax.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2013

It’s a model that is now happening across New Zealand, and it was nice to experience it near my friend’s house in Taranaki. New Zealand fantails were very common. Birding New Zealand New Zealand endemics' Rare species, like North Island Brown Kiwi , have been reintroduced.

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