Hi folks, Can anyone advise if the Black Kite seen at Wanaka Airport in Jan/Feb 1997 was ever written up as a UBR and submitted to (and accepted by) the OSNZ...
A Black Kite was present on Waihopai Valley Road in Marlborough on the afternoon of May 29. I can only presume it is the same bird I saw previously in the same...
Roger Radd
kiwi@...
Jun 3, 2004 2:00 pm
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I am interested in collating as many NZ black kite records as possible - but have saved some, but not all, of the sightings reported through this network! Any...
Mel Galbraith
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Jun 5, 2004 3:49 am
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Andrew, Hopefully David Medway will respond with a definitive answer to your query, however when the sighting up this way was accepted we were told that it was...
David
lawrie@...
Jun 7, 2004 9:24 am
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Whoops, I should have checked all my messages before answering Andrews request. There was Rogers confirmation of what I thought was a Brent Stephenson rumour,...
David
lawrie@...
Jun 7, 2004 9:50 am
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I wonder - did anyone passing Waipara in Nth Canty on their way to or from the AGM, locate the Black Kite that Nick Allen reported last week? AC ... From:...
Royal Spoonbill 44 Pied Stilt 38 Bar-tailed Godwit 6 Wrybill 24 Lesser Knot 1 Banded Plover 32 Caspian Tern 10 White-fronted Tern 165 but no Terek Sandpiper......
Francois Hupet
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Jun 8, 2004 3:28 am
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Hi people (sorry for cross-posting) Why are not some birds worth more in the life list than others? Should not the rare ones give some sort of bonus score?...
Dear all, Last week I had a couple of days in the Mackenzie District on my way to the OSNZ AGM and conference in Oamaru. The following were the highlights (or...
Nick Allen
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Jun 8, 2004 12:58 pm
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Hi all, Further to Nick Allen's posting on the Oamaru weekend, Brent and I also made the journey down with the following high- (and low-!) lights: 3 Jun Cook...
Sav Saville
sav@...
Jun 9, 2004 3:56 am
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Hi, My name is Mal Jenkins and I am a birder form Pontypool in Wales. I run a checklist website (www.printablebirdchecklists.homestead.com) and I want to...
Hi all, Since the flurry of Rufous Night Heron reports about a year ago, there have been very few, so I took a trip this evening out to the regular roost site...
Sav Saville
sav@...
Jun 10, 2004 7:35 am
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Is anyone in the habit of making year lists of species seen in NZ? The practice is quite common in Europe and the States. As a starting point for anyone...
Sav Saville
sav@...
Jun 10, 2004 7:58 am
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Hi al, How to save a billion birds and saving energy. For your interest. Rob Schuckard Lights-Out Policies in Cities Save Migrating Birds USA: June 11, 2004 ...
Rob Schuckard
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Jun 11, 2004 4:10 am
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Hi Just a reminder if anyone is interested, Don Merton is coming to speak after the AGM of Forest and Bird tonight. AGM 7pm Don Merton 8pm where Lyceum Club...
A really enjoyable book on this aspect of birding is The Big Year, by Mark Obmascik, released just a couple of months ago. It follows three American birders...
David Riddell and Ann...
Number8@...
Jun 11, 2004 11:52 pm
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Hi all, Thirteen people from OSNZ Nelson and Golden Bay Region carried out the Wader Winter Census over Queens Birthday. This census overlapped with the AGM...
Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Jun 13, 2004 5:46 am
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Hi All, On the 13th of June, 2 Black Stilts were observed at the Wairau Lagoon (Blenheim). These Black Stilts are probably the same as the ones I observed in...
Francois Hupet
fhupet@...
Jun 13, 2004 9:13 pm
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Banding, a common and simple way of tagging wildlife, can kill the creatures it was designed to monitor, new research has found. ...
G'day all, Following on from recent postings from Nick Allen and Sav, I was wandering around Mt John looking for Chukors back in late March with the same nil...
wendy hare
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Jun 14, 2004 12:40 am
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The count on Saturday June 12, organised by Nick Allen and Colin Hill, was carried out by around 15 people. Bright, sunny conditions after a morning frost....
Wratten, Steve
Wrattens@...
Jun 14, 2004 9:00 am
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I was at Tekapo in April 2000 and met someone who walked up there every day. I asked about the chukor and she said she saw them occasionally, maybe once a...
David Riddell and Ann...
Number8@...
Jun 14, 2004 8:08 pm
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Hi All The last time we looked for chukors we found them in a small tussock-filled valley beside the road leading to the summit. A pair. This was a couple of...
Kiwi Wildlife Tours
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Jun 14, 2004 8:25 pm
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Dear all, Have tried both methods now (from the Obs road and the Godley Peaks Road), but may not have been using the right technique to find them. Perhaps they...
Nick Allen
nick_allen@...
Jun 15, 2004 11:35 am
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Hi, I visited the Waipara RM and the Ashley Estuary on Sunday as part of the wader count. It was good to see the Waipara (located seawards from Amberley) still...
Nick Allen
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Jun 15, 2004 11:39 am
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At the Ashley Estuary yesterday were now 5 whimbrils all Asiatic and the 1 Curlew. The Black stilt had made its reappearance too. There was a banded juvenile...
Sheila Petch
petch@...
Jun 21, 2004 10:46 pm
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I thought this was very interesting. Rosemary Tully (Whakatane Bird Rescue) 99, Otarawairere Road Whakatane 3080 New Zealand Phone: 006473084347 Website:...
Hi For many years now a small number of birds have been handed into Bird Rescue with the sticky seeds on their feathers from the Parapara Tree/Shrub (Pisonia...
Hi All There is an Intermediate Egret at Lawrence, Otago. It appears to spend most of its time on a couple of small ponds just off SH8, on the road to...
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