Anthornis melanura melanura.
Endemic; Not Threatened status.
This is a female; more brown than green like the males, with a thin dab of white running back from the beak under each eye…
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Gallirallus australis australis
Endemic. Extreme Fluctuations. Increasing.
Making like a dinosaur…
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Anas platyrhynchos
Introduced.
The male birds in NZ are often quite a bit more drab than the northern hemisphere examples, due to genetics from hybridisation with NZ Grey ducks.
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Gallirallus australis australis
Endemic. Extreme Fluctuations. Increasing.
This chick was exploring, but never far from a parent and the shelter of the scrub alongside the road
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Larus bulleri
Endemic. Nationally Critical. Data Poor. Recruitment Failure. Expected decline >70%.
I passed this and another photo to researcher Mike Bell, and he tells me: This bird will be E-226906… It was banded as a chick on 14/12/2014 on the Wairau River, it regularly over-winters at Lake Rotiti, but has also over-wintered at Kaikoura. We recorded breeding for the first time in Nov 2016 as a two year old (usual for this species). It has spent the last two winters at the Lake [Rotoiti].
Larus bulleri
Endemic. Nationally Critical. Data Poor. Recruitment Failure. Expected decline >70%.
This bird has just scooped up a drink of water and is tipping its head back to swallow it… spot the drop of water falling…
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Egretta novaehollandiae novaehollandiae
Native. Not Threatened. Stable Overseas.
Crabbing on the estuary
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Larus bulleri
Endemic. Nationally Critical. Data Poor. Recruitment Failure. Expected decline >70%.
The future for these noble gulls is bleak, as the population is ageing and failing to be replaced by younger birds for a multitude of bad reasons, fundamentally because people don’t care enough.
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Laris dominicanus dominicanus
Native. Not Threatened. Not protected.
Even a bird that can be a bit of a nuisance can look gloriously majestic in flight…
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Sturnus vulgaris vulgaris
Introduced.
This bird is holding a stone up with it’s beak to look underneath for anything yummy…
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