Hello BIRDING-NZ, Mtn Breeze has posted an important post on the BirdingNZ.net website. ... Here's the text of the post: Hi all, Earlier in the week I was...
Hi Detlef Thanks for the info. The kakariki, if that is what they were, were flying amongst the trees around the Waitangi grounds just near the two houses....
Sadly a bittern has be sighted in Northland with a broken wing ( car impact ?) - the bird was photographed by Kevin. A report on the bird and photo is on my...
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Jul 1, 2010 9:59 pm
Hello BIRDING-NZ, phil hammond has posted an important post on the BirdingNZ.net website. ... Here's the text of the post: hi all there were 2 mongolian...
Great pictures Matt Thanks for letting us see them. Stuart Chambers ... From: noreply@... To: BIRDING-NZ Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 9:37 PM ...
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Lloyd Esler
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Jul 2, 2010 2:31 am
This raises the question of how many birds survive a broken or amputated limb. There are plenty of monopodal gulls for example. I have a healed radius and...
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Rosemary Tully
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Jul 2, 2010 3:20 am
Hi Lloyd I had a bittern with a broken wing, (the wing had been broken some time (months/years) and set badly so it was unable to fly). The wing was removed...
Just wondering if there were powerlines there. A broken wing must a pretty common result of a collision with wires if the cripples I found on our farm are ...
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Rosemary Tully
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Jul 2, 2010 5:32 am
Hi Ian, I think a lot of birds get hit by cars etc. A few of the bitterns I have had in care have been found by the road. The Slades at the Cheddar Valley...
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Jul 2, 2010 1:06 pm
Hello BIRDING-NZ, vie.crowe has posted an important post on the BirdingNZ.net website. ... Here's the text of the post: I saw this bird today in the lower...
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Kevin Matthews
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Jul 3, 2010 7:20 am
Yep power lines present but on this occasion I'd say almost certainly a car clip. The deep Raupo drains either side of the built up road make for good Bittern...
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Jul 3, 2010 8:47 am
Hello BIRDING-NZ, Christopher has posted an important post on the BirdingNZ.net website. ... Here's the text of the post: Hi everyone, I was up at Waiwera...
I came across a small group of Red Crowned Parakeet in Porirua Scenic Reserve yesterday (Ian Armitage has previously reported the birds in this tract of bush)....
When we first moved here 10 years ago there were two blackbirds with white patches. One a blob on it's wing & the other had a white neck ring. They were around...
TO ALL SOUTHERN BIRDERS - the Kea Conservation Trust is running a survey of kea each weekend afternoon during July. If anyone is planning on being out in the...
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Crossland, Andrew
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Jul 4, 2010 9:10 pm
Departures of SIPO from the Avon-Heathcote Estuary in CHCH have been evident over the last week or two. Early SIPO are now on inland sites, doing display...
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Jan Walker
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Jul 4, 2010 10:34 pm
We sometimes see SIPO pairs on site during the Ashburton Lakes Count, coming up on 17th July this year. A Blackbird started singing from the very top of the...
So far I am not aware of any reports of departures up north but we are well in the migration time period. The weather certainly seems to be detering the ...
Hi All We are putting on an all-day offshore pelagic tour off the Kaikoura Coast (we only do 1 per winter) on Saturday the 31st of July (with Sunday as a...
Yes, I heard one calling on Saturday, over the vineyard at the end of Mt Brown Rd, Glasnevin. I nearly didn't believe my own ears, but I happened to have my...
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Crossland, Andrew
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Jul 6, 2010 8:50 pm
Blackbirds and Starlings singing everywhere, SIPO moving inland and display flying Shoveler, Grey teal, Para, Mallard all moving to breeding areas and ...
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Jul 7, 2010 12:34 am
Hello BIRDING-NZ, siouxp has posted an important post on the BirdingNZ.net website. ... Here's the text of the post: Yesterday, 6 july. whilst out on my deck...
Just received this from TV3 regarding the 'shooting incident: Dear Aalbert, I have received comment from the producer of Outdoors with Geoff who was initially...
Hi All I am in the S Island visiting my elderly mother who lives in Temuka. Yesterday we drove to the Mackenzie country and on the way home popped into Fairlie...
Hi all - just wondering if anyone has any records of Marsh crakes in Taranaki over last 10 years. Kind regards Peter...
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Jul 8, 2010 5:13 am
Hello BIRDING-NZ, Oscar has posted an important post on the BirdingNZ.net website. ... Here's the text of the post: For the past 2 weeks the spoonbills have...
