On a drive to Wellington my brief Saturday afternoon (29-9-07) stop at Waikanae Estuary proved most worthwhile. A pair of spoonbills, the pair of brown teal...
Hi all, Just received word of what sounds like a SHORE PLOVER (presumably a Mana Island bird?) at the Rangitikei Estuary at Tangimoana. This is between ...
Sav Saville
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Oct 2, 2007 8:25 am
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Last Saturday in Sth Canterbury at family farm spotted a black fantail. Very similar to the one many of us have observed at the Hamilton Gardens. Had the...
Barbara H.
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Oct 2, 2007 8:40 am
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Hi , Last night Rose and I spotted the Glossy Ibis for the 2nd time this week. Earlier in the week saw it on the wetland in front of our house with a pair of...
Driftwood Eco Tours
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Oct 2, 2007 6:22 pm
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Thanks for your note Sav. If the bird is a shore plover (presumably from Mana Is) I hope that the colour band combination on both legs can be recognised and...
Ian Armitage
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Oct 2, 2007 8:23 pm
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Just received an Email from DOC in Twizel identifying previousy posted bird as either a D2 or E node hybrid. By the way it seems there may be several hybrids @...
Hi all Am just back from a month in Vietnam. Great to hear it is all go here, with spring advancing even if the godwits are a little hard to find. Waders and...
tony.crocker
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Oct 3, 2007 3:10 am
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Hi folks, Here's about the best summary I've seen covering the figure 8 migration of Sooty Shearwaters around the Pacific/ Cheers AC ...
Crossland, Andrew
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Oct 3, 2007 7:38 pm
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Hi all, This was just posted to the birding-aus mailing list. If anyone can help Richard can they contact him directly? Thanks, Chris ... From: Dr Richard...
Report received today from DOC staff member Rosemary Vander Lee that an adult female New Zealand shore plover released on Mana Island on 22 June and seen at...
... From: Driftwood Eco Tours To: Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 7:22 AM Subject: glossy ibis returns Hi , Last night Rose and I spotted the Glossy Ibis for...
Driftwood Eco Tours
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Oct 4, 2007 6:52 am
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Hi all A stunning day to kick off our Hauraki Gulf summer pelagics – great day for watching seabirds! We departed Sandspit Landing 0830hrs with an...
Chris Gaskin
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Oct 7, 2007 4:16 am
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Hi folks, Spent the last few hours around the Tui feeder, trying to get over this morning disaster which we won't dwell on, and had a strangely marked Tui with...
Tree fuschia (Fuchsia excorticata) would be my guess. It is in flower now and the blue pollen definitely shows on bellbirds. Cheers, Neil. Neil Fitzgerald ...
hi all i got a surprise when i went to the salt water inlet between papakanui spit and the top of south kaipara peninsular on sunday there was a dabchick in...
Phil Hammond
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Oct 9, 2007 2:40 am
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Hi Phil, I have seen them on salt/brackish water at the Waikanae Estuary as well. Seems if there is freshwater they frequent locally, then they are not averse...
Brent Stephenson
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Oct 9, 2007 2:47 am
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Hi All, In the Marlborough hills there has been alot of rain and as a consequence there has been much flooding of the Wairau. When this happens the Opawa river...
Driftwood Eco Tours
will@...
Oct 9, 2007 3:35 pm
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10.10.07 Here is another piece to the migration puzzle from Bob Gill in Alaska Two colleagues (Dirk Derksen and Chris Dau) were on the end of the Alaska ...
Adrian Riegen
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Oct 9, 2007 5:45 pm
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The government has appointed a panel to look at managing the numbers of game animals in NZ and is calling for public submissions www.gameanimalpanel.org.nz for...
This panel is indeed a good idea but I am rather wary... Obviously just part of United Futures package it was given by Labour to allow them to govern and...
Paul Scofield
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Oct 10, 2007 12:27 am
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Hi everyone, While reconnoitering the Manawatu Estuary yesterday (9th October) for an excursion being organised by local OSNZ members as part of Wanganui's...
Just back from a whirlwind tour of the South Island - not really a birding trip, but saw a few things on the way. Highlights were: Blue Penguins: Oamaru,...
I was at Palmerston North's city central duck pond and I saw what looked like a mallard duckling diving about 2 feet underwater and feeding on the bottom of...
Hi Andrew, It would certainly be considered normal behavior for a Mallard, Parera (Grey Duck)or a Tete (Grey Teal) duckling to dive under water to avoid danger...
I have received another email to say that many, if not all, ducklings of dabbling ducks can dive and feed underwater. This has been suggested to be either...
Adrian Riegan's prediction that there will be a big increase in birds around 11-12 October has proved true here at the Motueka Sandspit (Tasman Bay, top of the...
Pauline Samways
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Oct 12, 2007 6:45 am
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Bev Alexander reports 103 Bar-tailed Godwits are now at the Ashley. She saw them at high tide at the end of King's Ave access, most were roosting, a few...
Jan Walker
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Oct 12, 2007 10:57 pm
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Hello There was 19 Bar-tailed Godwits at Washdyke lagoon near timaru this morning. There was also another bird with them, just one individual, about half the...
13.10.07 Ray Clough told me there was a big influx of godwits at Mangere SP on the Manukau H. today now 1500 there including colour banded birds, if anyone...
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