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...
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Roger Radd
kiwi@...
Jun 3, 2004 2:00 pm
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...
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Mel Galbraith
melgar@...
Jun 5, 2004 3:49 am
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...
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David
lawrie@...
Jun 7, 2004 9:24 am
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...
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David
lawrie@...
Jun 7, 2004 9:50 am
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,...
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:...
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Francois Hupet
fhupet@...
Jun 8, 2004 3:28 am
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......
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?...
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Nick Allen
nick_allen@...
Jun 8, 2004 12:58 pm
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...
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Sav Saville
sav@...
Jun 9, 2004 3:56 am
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...
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...
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Sav Saville
sav@...
Jun 10, 2004 7:35 am
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...
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Sav Saville
sav@...
Jun 10, 2004 7:58 am
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...
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Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Jun 11, 2004 4:10 am
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 ...
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...
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David Riddell and Ann...
Number8@...
Jun 11, 2004 11:52 pm
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...
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Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Jun 13, 2004 5:46 am
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...
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Francois Hupet
fhupet@...
Jun 13, 2004 9:13 pm
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...
Banding, a common and simple way of tagging wildlife, can kill the creatures it was designed to monitor, new research has found. ...
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wendy hare
whare@...
Jun 14, 2004 12:40 am
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...
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Wratten, Steve
Wrattens@...
Jun 14, 2004 9:00 am
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....
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David Riddell and Ann...
Number8@...
Jun 14, 2004 8:08 pm
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...
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Kiwi Wildlife Tours
kwtl@...
Jun 14, 2004 8:25 pm
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...
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Nick Allen
nick_allen@...
Jun 15, 2004 11:35 am
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...
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Nick Allen
nick_allen@...
Jun 15, 2004 11:39 am
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...
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Sheila Petch
petch@...
Jun 21, 2004 10:46 pm
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...
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...
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Richard Schofield
richard@...
Jun 23, 2004 8:08 am
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...
