The birds of New Zealand , bird calls & photos.
Aug 22nd 2011, 12:28 am
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little silver eye at top of Rangototo
Aug 22nd 2011, 12:37 am
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Fan tail- hard to photograph as they flit around so much in a crazy drunken flight path
Aug 22nd 2011, 1:11 am
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Photo needed please?
Aug 22nd 2011, 7:38 am
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Aug 22nd 2011, 7:45 am
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Aug 22nd 2011, 11:08 pm
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not sure if that will work. a NZ dotterel. endangered and showing his pink breeding chest
not sure if that will work. a NZ dotterel. endangered and showing his pink breeding chest
Aug 23rd 2011, 12:43 am
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Keas in the snow on Arthur's Pass. Could only get one of the brightly coloured underside of the wings as they're too bloody fast
And one pukeko in Christchurch, Charismatic's description of them is spot on
. They make me smile.
And one pukeko in Christchurch, Charismatic's description of them is spot on
. They make me smile.
Aug 23rd 2011, 7:58 am
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Fan tail- hard to photograph as they flit around so much in a crazy drunken flight path
Fan tail- hard to photograph as they flit around so much in a crazy drunken flight path
I think the birds are probably my favourite thing about New Zealand. 
Aug 23rd 2011, 8:28 am
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I'm not sure if this is a heron or not 
He was so hard to photograph! You're afraid to move in case he'll fly off as they're very skitterish but he kept shaking the leaves around him so even though I was just under the tree I don't have a clear shot of him (HE is a wood pigeon. It could very easily have been a SHE but they're so big you can't help but attribute masculine traits to them 
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We've got a couple of families of these in our 'garden'
He was so hard to photograph! You're afraid to move in case he'll fly off as they're very skitterish but he kept shaking the leaves around him so even though I was just under the tree I don't have a clear shot of him (HE is a wood pigeon. It could very easily have been a SHE but they're so big you can't help but attribute masculine traits to them ) We've got a couple of families of these in our 'garden'
Nov 2nd 2011, 12:13 am
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I'd love to have the wee parrots down here in our garden.
Meant to add these 2 photos last week.
Husband went out onto the back deck to find this shining cuckoo just sitting there. Theory is it had flown into the lounge window & needed time to recover itself. It flew happily away after a short while.
Wonderful green plumage with stripped cream and beige chest markings They really are shiny
Meant to add these 2 photos last week.
Husband went out onto the back deck to find this shining cuckoo just sitting there. Theory is it had flown into the lounge window & needed time to recover itself. It flew happily away after a short while.
Wonderful green plumage with stripped cream and beige chest markings They really are shiny
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Nov 2nd 2011, 5:27 am
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Nov 2nd 2011, 9:44 am
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What lovely photographs, can't wait to see all these birds myself. As the winter approaches here, we have a 3 woodpeckers, a pair of collared doves, coal tits, great tits, blue tits, thrushes, blackbirds and a whole load of tree sparrows. Husband has started complaining about their feed bill already!
Nov 2nd 2011, 8:34 pm
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We have a thrush nesting in a Yucca at just about eye level. I'm checking regularly for the chicks emerging 
Nov 3rd 2011, 3:09 am
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If you are semi-rural, you may have heard the morepork at night (or ruru, a NZ native owl). I hear the ruru all the time in that period where you're drifting off to sleep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4QWKo_7IN4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4QWKo_7IN4