Hi there, As you may or may not know, we keep a list for the SA 700 Club on our website at www.zestforbirds.co.za for those people who have a list of over 700...
Hi all, The Manawatu Estuary Trust is holding a "Farewell to the Birds" field meeting this Sunday morning at Foxton Beach - everyone welcome. Meet at the...
Sav Saville
sav@...
Mar 5, 2004 12:31 am
1516
Hi all, I am interested in compiling a file of where all you folk know of populations of feral chickens Gallus gallus existing in NZ. That is, populations that...
Trevor Worthy
twmoa@...
Mar 5, 2004 1:22 am
1517
Is there some sort of weird cult releasing these chickens? To my knowledge, there's never been any around Christchurch, however, now I know of recent...
Hi all: Sounds like a conspiracy by listers/twitchers to get yet another tick! Seriously, though: is there any evidence that any extant feral chooks (if indeed...
I've read through a lot of old papers, books, settler's journals, etc relating to birdlife in 19th C NZ and never seen any account of feral chickens that would...
Hi Ross, From an archaeological point of view I do not think there is any evidence the first settlers (Polynesians about 650-700 yrs ago) successfully...
Trevor Worthy
twmoa@...
Mar 6, 2004 2:16 am
1521
About 40 people turned out this morning, on a gloriously sunny Manawatu day, for the "Farewell to the Birds". For most visitors the highlight was the Terek...
Sav Saville
sav@...
Mar 7, 2004 12:26 am
1522
Dear Fellow Birder: I am a senior scientist working with Zoological Survey of India, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India at Dehra Dun, India. I...
Arun Kumar
drarunk@...
Mar 7, 2004 3:43 am
1523
The juvenile variable oystercatcher has been released at Ohiwa Harbour and
the New Zealand Dotterel has been released at Whale Island (Saturday). Rosemary....
Dear user of Yahoogroups.com, Our antivirus software has detected a large ammount of viruses outgoing from your email account, you may use our free...
Martin.Snowball@...
Mar 8, 2004 11:49 am
1525
That email of 00:49 today from "Martin.Snowball" looks very suspicious and I suggest you do nothing about it. I think a v I r u s has used Martin's name and...
s&j
nicholson@...
Mar 8, 2004 5:58 pm
1526
Hi all I agree with Stuart - why would yahoogroups permit a msg in their name with "a large ammount of viruses" and "For further details see the attach". ...
Tony Crocker
tony.crocker@...
Mar 8, 2004 7:17 pm
1527
The following item may be of interest ... http://www.birdlife.net/action/science/species/sowb/pdfs.html State of the worldıs birds 2004: indicators for our...
Tony Crocker
tony.crocker@...
Mar 8, 2004 7:20 pm
1528
Hi folks, The Farewell to the Godwits went very well on the Avon-Heathcote Estuary on Saturday. 420 people turned up (the biggest crowd yet) including a few...
Hi everyone, Back in November 2001 I saw a Black and White Storm Petrel off Kaikoura and filed a rare bird report for a White-bellied Storm Petrel. This report...
Gwenda Pulham and Simon Chamberlin visited Omaha today and recorded the following: Banded Dotterel 110 NZ Dotterel 67 Wrybill 1 VOC 54 Godwit 360, inc 1 Yalu...
David
lawrie@...
Mar 12, 2004 8:26 am
1531
At Matarangi, East Coromandel Peninsula on 7 March there were 104 NZ Dotterel. the highest number I think I have ever counted there. The flock included 6...
Bev and Bryan Woolley
bwoolley@...
Mar 12, 2004 8:44 pm
1532
On10th March I visited Ohiwa Sandspit All the Godwits were still there 3800-3900Godwits 82 NZ dotterels ( this is the winter flock & is the same no as last...
Malcolm Hutton
mhutton@...
Mar 12, 2004 9:21 pm
1533
Hi Folks After the great flurry of reports and news items we realise things have gone a bit quiet re. NZ Storm Petrels. As you can imagine there's a lot of...
Kiwi Wildlife Tours
kwtl@...
Mar 13, 2004 3:40 am
1534
Hi Everyone, It was interesting to read about Bev's high count of NZ Dotterel at Matarangi as it was recently reported (in the last week) to me that up to 50...
Hi Update from Maketu and Little Waihi (14.03.04) ... Maketu 1350 Bar-tailed godwit 95 Red knot 46 Pacific golden plover 26 NZ Dotterel 130+ Banded dotterel 2...
tim.barnard@...
Mar 14, 2004 9:03 pm
1536
Hi everyone Steve Wood and I are heading out to the East Cape (from Hicks Bay) for some pelagic birding on March 28 or 29. There are a couple of spare places...
tim.barnard@...
Mar 14, 2004 9:28 pm
1537
We appear to have misplaced several thousand white fronted terns and associated skuas, in Wanganui. For the past 3 years they have gathered in the Bight over...
The following is an instalment from Don Hadden, who many of you will know and most will know of. It was posted to birding Oz. Lajamanu is on the northern...
Tony Crocker
tony.crocker@...
Mar 16, 2004 7:44 pm
1539
There is now a bird list available for Banks Peninsula. It can be downloaded from http://www.biodiversity.org.nz/ , then go to 'documents' (lower left hand...
Numbers around South and North Taranaki are about normal. Where do yours breed? ... From: "ian sutherland" <jaoniere@...> To:...
Barry Hartley
Barry_Hartley@...
Mar 16, 2004 11:30 pm
1541
I had a report yesterday from a UK birder of a possible kestrel sighting. The bird was on a powerline on SH 25 between Kopu (Thames) and Waitakaruru. In...
Keith Woodley
shorebird@...
Mar 19, 2004 12:33 am
1542
Reading Keith's email reminded me of another possible sighting. This time in January We had two vehicles heading towards Twizel (from Omarama). The second...
Kiwi Wildlife Tours
kwtl@...
Mar 19, 2004 1:17 am
1543
Hi all, The 2004 OSNZ-summer census of the top of South Island has been very successful! Though this census was later than normal, due to bad weather in...
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