Hi all,
a partial albino Tui was seen on 1 September near Hamilton, feeding on Kowhai nectar. This bird matches Oliver's description of one in the 1955 edition...
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Dave Brown
baldcoot@...
Sep 3, 2002 8:47 pm
Hi all I am looking for information on the Bare-throated Bellbird (Procnias nudicollis) to be included in the series "National Birds" currently running in our...
Hi, I am intending on spending this weekend looking for Blue Ducks on the South Island. If anybody has any good sites could they please let me know. A tramping...
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Barnard Family
tim.barnard@...
Sep 5, 2002 9:31 am
Hi everyone Its been a cold wet day in Rotorua but I did hear my first shining cuckoo of the year in the Forest Research grounds ... its a lot earlier than I...
Hi all Our recent Black Stilt visitor from near Gore has now popped up in Lumsden (well we think it is the same bird). The local Fish & Game were advised of...
Did anyone get any photos of the BTNHen at Lake Hood? and has it been seen either last or this weekend? Sav [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Dear all, Jack Davidson tells me the heron was last seen on 18/7, though there have benn unconfirmed reports since in more out of the way areas. Cheers, Nick...
Hi, I want to visit the Caspian tern Colony at the Onoke spit in the middle of this month to take some photographs. Is this a good time to visit or is it too...
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s&j
nicholson@...
Sep 9, 2002 6:53 pm
Dear Jason, How about letting a Tern get on with what a Tern has to do and join the banding team in mid December? Stuart Nicholson ... From: Jason Elsworth...
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David Melville
david.melville@...
Sep 9, 2002 8:25 pm
Subject: BLACK-FACED CUCKOO-SHRIKE Dear all Please see the following note from Richard Stocker - definitely time to dust off the binoculars! Cheers David ... ...
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Tony Crocker
t.crocker@...
Sep 10, 2002 2:21 am
Seen on birding-aus..... "And after forty days in the wilderness the Lord took him to the mountaintop and below stretched a vast green plain, and the Lord...
I stopped in on my way past on September 9th and the bird was still there! I didn't take any pictures though Sav. For those that haven't seen the bird it has...
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Eric Woehler by way ...
h.phillipps@...
Sep 11, 2002 11:53 pm
Preliminary announcement and invitation for presentations ****************************************************** Birds Australia 2003 Members' Day Threats to,...
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Ron Searle
ronmore@...
Sep 12, 2002 1:28 pm
My wife and I (SAfricans) will visit NZ in Nov to see the endemic and pelagic birds for which NZ is well-known. On Sun 24 Nov we will be in the Aukland area,...
kia ora a female falcon has been flying around here (on the edge of Ohiwa Harbour on Burkes Road)the last week or so. Very noisy! This morning she was joined...
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D & L LAWRIE
lawrie@...
Sep 14, 2002 7:55 am
Just a quick note to tell you that it appears that the arctic waders are arriving early this year. Tony Habraken was on the South Manukau on the 7th and found...
Hi All, Thanks to those of you who gave me info on looking for blue ducks. I spoke to Andy Wells at Hokitika DOC who said that the three bestr iver systems in...
Hi A Royal Spoonbill was seen yesterday (Monday) on the Whakatane river flats by the yacht club. Plus Bill Plunket saw two whimbrels on Tern Island in Ohiwa...
Hi there are still a few places left on the Bird Rescue Weekend which starts off the "Bird a Plenty" festival. Whakatane Bird Rescue Weekend - Sponsored by...
Today (18 Sep) there were 8 Cattle Egrets in a paddock by the Whangaehu River (south side) just South of Wanganui. As far as I know these are the only Cattle...
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Hugo Phillipps
h.phillipps@...
Sep 19, 2002 11:15 pm
Hi everybody - This is not about New Zealand birds, but the message below, posted by Colin Poole to the OrientalBirding list, may be of interest. Cheers, Hugo ...
