Birds making an impressionI am seeking examples of birds leaving impact impressions on windows (see e.g. Flux, J. 1990. Impact impression of New Zealand pigeon...
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george watola
george.watola@...
Jun 1, 2007 3:03 pm
Hi Lloyd Google doesn't reveal anything definitive, but my theory for what is worth is that Aegialides is actually Aegialites a 19th c synonym for Charadrius....
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Phil Hammond
philxhammond@...
Jun 4, 2007 8:54 am
hi all the grass [plumed] whistling duck reported late april has been seen several times since then, walking on lawns , standing on the side of the road, etc...
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Phil Hammond
philxhammond@...
Jun 4, 2007 9:05 am
there was a flock of at least 77 cattle egrets and 1 kotuku with them around the junction of Ghezzie and Forestry roads south of waiuku today [ monday] every...
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Suzi Phillips
suzi@...
Jun 4, 2007 9:21 am
Hi Phil, I got some close-up photos of this Grass Whistling Duck last Monday (May 29th) and these will be shown at the Auckland OSNZ meeting tomoro night. Best...
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Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Jun 6, 2007 3:56 am
Dear all, As you all are most likely well aware, the New Zealand Wader Census for our arctic waders during the non breeding period has always been done in the ...
Counted 29 Royal Spoonbills at McCormacks Bay this morning. Something spooked the Grey Teal and they all took off. Great sight against the blue sky. Ian...
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Brent Stephenson
brent@...
Jun 6, 2007 6:55 am
Further to Rob's email, contact information for your local Ornithological Society of New Zealand (OSNZ) Regional Representative (RR) can be found on the OSNZs...
In response to a request McCormacks Bay in Christchurch is on the road to Sumner and is the mudflat area on the right side of the causeway between Mt Pleasant...
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Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Jun 6, 2007 9:05 pm
Hi everyone, I saw a few weeks ago a colour banded Pied Stilt at the Avon Heathcote Estuary in Christchurch. Does anyone know who is or has been working on...
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Crossland, Andrew
andrew.crossland@...
Jun 7, 2007 2:13 am
just to add a little to Ian's posting. There have been about 80-100 Spoonbills on the Avon-Heathciote esturary in ecent months, with the McCormacks birds being...
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Crossland, Andrew
andrew.crossland@...
Jun 7, 2007 2:44 am
<http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=4387433/grpspId=1705065787/m sgId=5423/stime=1181182430/nc1=4430620/nc2=4507179/nc3=3848445> Hi folks, especially...
Birdlife International is having a competition for photos of the world's 189 rarest birds, which includes a number of NZ species - Campbell Island Teal, ...
good luck to photographers for some of those species lol -- Himalayan quail, crested shelduck, pink-headed duck, Samoan moorhen, Javan lapwing, ivory-billed...
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Oecologico
oecologico@...
Jun 8, 2007 6:16 am
Hi everyone Last weekend at the OSNZ scientific day I played a 3 minute animation called Kiwi! By American film student Dony Permedi. The clip can be viewed...
Had thought of entering comp. but decided no. However here are the urls for a couple of black stilt shots: ...
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Suzi Phillips
suzi@...
Jun 11, 2007 9:28 am
A pair of Kaka seen feeding on the flowers of a bottlebrush tree in Torbay (on Auckland's North Shore) for about half an hour before being harrassed on their...
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Suzi Phillips
suzi@...
Jun 12, 2007 11:51 am
Another report of a Kaka. This one by a local resident at Wairere Rd, Waitakere (Northwest Auckland), of a bird seen and photographed on 17 May. The family...
Does anybody else watch 'Lost' on Wednesday nights and notice all the curlews calling in the tropical forest? Phil ___________________________________ Phil...
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David Melville
david.melville@...
Jun 13, 2007 9:51 am
Yes - they have been there for quite a few weeks - must give us a clue as to where it was filmed .....unless of course it was canned.....certianly too sunny...
Claire caught a silver gull a few weeks ago that was on part of its long-distance migration between the island and Aus/NZ. It had a giant aerial transmitter on...
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Graeme Taylor
pterodroma@...
Jun 14, 2007 10:59 am
Heard 3 hedgies (dunnocks for those who insist on standardised common names)singing in full song this morning as I walked down to the train. This is about 6...
If you remember the film 'Dances with Wolves', Kevin Costner is seen at one point in the prairies of the southern USA with a background chorus of Willow...
Radio NZ did the same. They had the song of the North Island species of cicada, Amphipsalta cingulata as a background sound for a Southland item. Charles...
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David Riddell & Annet...
Number8@...
Jun 16, 2007 3:14 am
There was a New Zealand movie in the 80s called Trespasses, starred Patrick McGoohan, set in and around Bethells Beach. One frequently used location was a...
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David
lawrie@...
Jun 16, 2007 4:58 am
Just in case anybody is passing Miranda check out the Teal. Last Sunday during the census, the team doing all the counting on the Spit, in my presence saw a...
my personal bugbear is when they use Humboldt's penguins in movies supposed to be set in Antarctica. Drives me nuts. detlefdavies <detlefdavies@...>...
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David
lawrie@...
Jun 16, 2007 9:04 pm
For your information, so check out teal everywhere. David Lawrie ... From: Lawton To: 'David' Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 10:17 PM Subject: RE: [BIRDING-NZ]...
Next Saturday, 23 June, 3 more kokako will be released on Tiritiri Matangi Island. Each of these birds is the offspring of the sole Taranaki bird, a male, in...
The one that made me laugh this year was the NZ Herald story of the penguin that tried to cross the Auckland Harbour Bridge and the accompanying photo was of...
