It's all about the birds
I recall some lots of years ago of someone telling me of having a Brown Goshawk, over a period of days, observed in various stages at having killed and eaten a family of Tawny Frogmouths. I think this was an adult pair of Tawny Frogmouths and their part grown young. I suppose there is nothing … Read more
As I mentioned in another post, I attended a geography conference in Christchurch last week. I had a spare day before the conference and booked myself on a 3 hour boat trip out of Kaikoura. As the recommended travel time from Christchurch is 2.5 hours, this meant setting off more than an hour before dawn. … Read more
I was Aotearoa last week for a geography conference and acquired a NZ field guide before setting out. This proved to be a bit depressing as the NZ guide only included about 60 endemic/native/vagrant species that weren’t in P&K. (This included 18 passerines and 8 shags.) The remaining species not found in P&K were exotic … Read more
On Monday I visited Healesville Sanctuary. A pair of Orange-bellied Parrots live in an aviary labelled ‘Endangered Species’, but I was very concerned to see that the female was minus most of her breast feathers, so that she looked quite pink down the front. A FOTZ volunteer guide told me that this was a stress … Read more
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