Highlight of our Atuanui Restoration Project bird monitoring yesterday, (5min bird counts each end of each line transect for10 tracking tunnel lines - 450m...
Suzi Phillips
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Oct 1, 2006 7:38 am
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22 Sep 2006 One whitehead seen and several others heard from same flock in upper Waitawheta Valley. This is approx same latitude as Mt Te Aroha, and must be...
A cluster of belated sightings - I have been away from Wellington and home PC for 3 weeks. 17 Sept 2006 Female scaup with pale undertail coverts at Hamurana...
Shining cuckoo heard from Murumurunga marae, at turn off to Minginui/Whirinaki (between Murupara & Waikaremoana) on 27 Sept. The spate of sightings (or...
One rook seen from SH1 north of Hihitahi bluffs (10 km dsouth of Waiouru) today (1 Oct). Are they known from here? Colin Miskelly [Non-text portions of this...
Stormy conditions provided good views of Bar-tailed Godwits hunkered down awaiting the abatement of the weather at Katikati's Matahui Point. Tauranga Harbour's...
Paul Cuming
birdo@...
Oct 1, 2006 11:12 am
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Dear all, Now a good portion of the migratory species has arrived in the country, we hope to get your support again for the second national colour-band...
Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Oct 1, 2006 12:25 pm
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Hi A group of herons is a siege, or sedge. Also applies to bitterns. Cheers, Richard Richard Schofield richard@... www.richardschofield.co.nz ...
Richard Schofield
richard@...
Oct 1, 2006 7:28 pm
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At Taharoa on 28 September, we had just completed a beach patrol, and was looking at the live birds gathered around the stream mouth. They were mainly ...
Bev and Bryan Woolley
bwoolley@...
Oct 1, 2006 8:26 pm
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This is a good record. Traditionally Mt Te Aroha has been regarded as the northern limit for this species, but in my time as Waikato regional recorder (late...
David Riddell & Annet...
Number8@...
Oct 1, 2006 11:21 pm
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Hi Had a report of a little egret at Papakowhai. Will try and find some more details of exact location. If you're in the area should be worth a look... Cheers ...
timandwendybarnard
timandwendybarnard@...
Oct 1, 2006 11:48 pm
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There was a small, apparently banded, tern at Miranda yesterday (Sunday 1st Oct) that is very possibly a Fairy Tern. So if anyone is out there, please give it...
Hi, this is a bit late, but an unusual tern was seen by a number of people during a beach clean up at Whatipu on Sunday the 24th of September. I have an idea...
Many thanks for the tip Andrew. I spent a very enjoyable hour or so watching the Crake at about 5pm this evening, like you said he is quite bold and easy to...
Hi there I returned to visit Ahuriri estuary over the weekend a couple of times and found there were in fact 13 Pacific golden plovers in all, including one...
stephanie mills
millsszabo@...
Oct 2, 2006 8:19 am
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Tony Habraken had the first juvenile godwit of the season yesterday at Mataitai on South Auckland's east coast. He and I had not seen any in a couple of...
G'day all Many thanks to Andrew for alerting us to the Marsh Crake at Travis Wetland. Two of us headed off straight after work. There was a third person...
Tony Crocker
tony.crocker@...
Oct 2, 2006 9:15 pm
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Hi all I didn't think I'd bother the good people of birding-nz in its entirety, but a couple of people have suggested I post the following anyway. I was in ...
Tony Crocker
tony.crocker@...
Oct 2, 2006 10:11 pm
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Hi Big influx of godwit over the last few days - many still feeding at hightide. Little Waihi Bartails 599 Knot 3 Wrybill 1 Maketu Barwit 372 Knot 7 [Non-text...
timandwendybarnard
timandwendybarnard@...
Oct 3, 2006 6:33 am
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Hi All, It would be an interesting study to determine what impact pukeko is having on the survival rate of other hatchings in pukeko territory (perhaps a study...
Kevin Matthews
kble@...
Oct 3, 2006 9:16 am
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Hi I thought I would let you all know about this. As a member of the Blue Duck Recovery Group outside of DOC. Genesis is going to close the power station at...
Hi everyone, As a first time visitor to your country I am very pleased to have been able to see some of the seabirds at Kaikoura. I have posted them on my...
Peter, do you have an email contact address? Or several? Government and at Genesis. Perhaps an email campaign might help. Dubious but you never know....
Hi all Steve Wood and I have just completed a 13-day trip on board a vessel traveling from the Gambier Islands in southern French Polynesia to New Zealand. Our...
Kiwi Wildlife Tours
kwtl@...
Oct 3, 2006 8:30 pm
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This is definitely worth trying - especially as Genesis are a sponsor of the Blue Duck programme, or certainly were in their last annual report! ... From:...
Richard Fenner
r.fenner@...
Oct 3, 2006 8:49 pm
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Also PUBLICITY Tell your local metropolitan daily newspaper chief reporter and ask them to find out what is going on ? Genesis will respond to adverse...
Suzi Phillips
suzi@...
Oct 3, 2006 9:05 pm
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The Blue Duck is on the IUCN Red list as an Endangered Species as of 2002. ...
So far, my tally for people "twitching" this bird is about 20, nice to see/hear that everyone has sat down and quietly waited - no crake trampling like that...
This is a trip report for a 2-day pelagic which we ran out of Houhora in the Far North over last weekend. Huge numbers of birds were present, and a really good...
sav@...
Oct 3, 2006 11:05 pm
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Hi Peter (and all), I'd certainly sign a petition against this kind of behaviour, assuming appropriate links were provided to show the accuracy of the facts....
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