Waikuku is outside CHCH, at the opposite end of Waimakariri District - not sure if Cattle Egrest are still there but Sheila Petch, Tony Crocker and Nick Allen...
5 of us went to-day to check on these birds,as Sav had questioned my ID. I had conferred with Filipe about this, and he said that we had viewed the birds...
Sheila Petch
petch@...
Jul 2, 2004 4:59 am
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Could birders out looking at waders keep an eye out for colour-banded Red Knots, especially around the Auckland region? Last month we colour-banded 40 knots...
Sue Moore and I visited Tapora, in the Kaipara Harbour, today to follow up on Gillian Vaughan’s sighting of 6 colour-banded knots. While most of the banded...
The new book "Birds of the Chatham Islands" is now available for purchase by mail order only - at the discount rate of NZ$15 for members of the Ornithological...
Sav, No I am not in the practice of keeping a year list. How do you organise yourself, and keep it current? Do you rush out on New Years day and find Sparrows...
David
lawrie@...
Jul 7, 2004 9:28 am
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Hi I am visiting NZ South Island during November/Desember and have been desperatly trying to purchase a copy of Hand Guide to Birds of New Zealand by Barrie...
Can any tell me if there is a term to distinguish a wader chick after it leaves the nest but before it can fly? I gather fledgling refers to a chick after it...
The "New Atlas of Australian Birds" Barrett et al 2003 p. 6 talks about "runners" - which is pretty descriptive. Gannets are called flappers? How about...
Stuart & Jane Nicholson
nicholson@...
Jul 8, 2004 6:48 pm
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Dear Andy, It still available in bookshops in New Zealand. There is also the :Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand" by the same authors 2000 with the same...
Stuart & Jane Nicholson
nicholson@...
Jul 8, 2004 7:00 pm
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Hi Frances, This is a surprisingly difficult problem, and one that repeatedly comes up when people have done for example colony counts of terns on an island at...
I have just had a phone call from member Jackie Stevenson, who is a volunteer, looking after sick and injured birds, also young birds. She has received a young...
Sheila Petch
petch@...
Jul 10, 2004 8:16 am
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Dear all, I have just received our second sighting of white over green flagged Bar-tailed Godwit from the central staging area of the Flyway. This bird has...
Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Jul 11, 2004 8:44 pm
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Napier Pelagic Trip Report - 10 July 2004 Participants: Martin Snowball, John Winters, Tim Barnard, Rebecca Boulton, Tamsin Ward-Smith, Sav Saville, Brent...
Brent Stephenson
brent@...
Jul 11, 2004 11:53 pm
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FAR NORTH PELAGIC - 11 JULY 2004 A group of us - Alan Emmerson, Derek Bettesworth, Gillian Vaughan, Ian Southey, Ian Wilson, Detlef Davies, Wendy Hare, Nigel...
Kiwi Wildlife Tours
kwtl@...
Jul 12, 2004 2:36 am
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Hi again Many thanks to all of you that answered my request for purchasing the above book. I have now found a kind supplier who is also helping me obtain...
I had a report of Blackbirds nest building about 2 weeks ago. Mallards had young ducklings at Horseshoe Lake, CHCH, in May. SIPO returned to the Waimakariri...
Recent reports of pelagic trips prompts me to write a few notes from my experiences. Firstly.. Brown Skua.. a map in a recent bird book shows them restricted...
Hi All from Gwenda Pulham, On 10-7-04 Simon Chamberlin and I encountered an unusual plover at OMAHA Sand Spit. It was not a Banded Dotterel or a NZ Dotterel or...
John Simmons
johnsimmons@...
Jul 14, 2004 10:56 pm
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On Tues. 13th July at low tide on the R. Avon we saw 4 little black cormorants roosting, preening and loafing on a tiny mudbank next to Bexley Wetland Reserve....
Hi Chris, Thanks for the info on seabirds. Yep looks like brown skua are far more abundant in all seasons than we realised. Good to see. As yet the most...
Brent Stephenson
brent@...
Jul 15, 2004 8:06 am
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I'm yet to see it for myself, but there have been several reports of a falcon at the Hamilton Gardens lately. If anyone else has seen it I'm interested to...
Hi all, There is a Great Egret (aka White Heron) in Feilding, Manawatu, off Lethbridge Rd. The bird is very settled on a pond, but is actually on private land....
Sav Saville
sav@...
Jul 16, 2004 5:29 am
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Hi everybody Reading through Ross Silcock's Pacific Bird checklist on http://www.rosssilcock.com/pacific.htm, I noticed to my surprise that he has a record of...
I wonder if there are birders who may help the art historians identify some of these birds? "Many of the drawings by Forster are labelled 'An unidenfied bird' ...
Dear birders, Although I am able to name most of the birds that I see, particularly land birds, I am not an avid birder and therefore my understanding of...
Hi Mona-Lynn, The New Zealand Rarities Committee (RBC)- part of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand (OSNZ) - has 'jurisdiction' over things of this ...
Brent Stephenson
brent@...
Jul 16, 2004 11:54 pm
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My understanding is that for a sighting of a new or rare species for NZ to become an "official record" it must be vetted and accepted by the OSNZ rare birds...
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