Hi Peter, Thanks for your email. The only Whio bands visible from my photos are ; The female appears to have (L-R), BM/WB ie Blue over metal, and white over...
Suzi Phillips
suzi@...
Dec 2, 2007 3:12 am
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Hello Wendy We couldn’t praise too highly a day trip we did around the Coorong (Murray River mouth) with David Dadd in April 2004. He is at...
Colin & Robyn Ogle
robcol.ogle@...
Dec 2, 2007 6:31 am
6016
hi suzi, peter, and all I was on the road into ruatiti last thurs [29th]--a couple of days off work-- here's what i saw; BLUE DUCKS--13, seven of them were...
Phil Hammond
philxhammond@...
Dec 3, 2007 6:55 am
6017
Many thanks for the blue duck info that people have been posting. You may be interested to know that the number of resident pairs of blue duck in a 10km ...
npeet@...
Dec 3, 2007 7:13 pm
6018
Hi guys - 3 White-winged Black terns on the Rakaia River last Wed/Thursday: 1 in full BP associated with a B/F tern colony at GPS location :easting 2434930,...
Crossland, Andrew
andrew.crossland@...
Dec 3, 2007 8:29 pm
6019
Hi Nic, Great to see those figures and the local Blue duck population increase from the predator control. Keep up the excellent work, Best regards, Suzi ... ...
Suzi Phillips
suzi@...
Dec 3, 2007 8:45 pm
6020
Hi Wendy, Not sure what you are after, but.... OSNZ Canterbury have been sent a lot of promo material from River of Australia Expeditions. I will put some of...
Jan Walker
shesagreen@...
Dec 4, 2007 12:10 am
6021
Hi All I have 2 locations that I have found Long Tailed Cuckoo. One is in Franz Josef, the other in Whataroa. ( Both 20 mins from Okarito ) Glacier Country,...
Ian Cooper
okaritokiwitours@...
Dec 4, 2007 8:09 pm
6022
Dear all, Please see the following message from Chris about the need for careful recording of colour-banded Red Knots - as you will be aware, one of these was...
David Melville
david.melville@...
Dec 5, 2007 3:50 am
6023
I'm wondering if there are any birding trips that I might join up with as I don't know anything about NZ birding / sites. Shall start off in CHCH on 12th Dec,...
I spent much of last week surveying bush birds in the upper Dart River. Especially well up the bush seemed pretty quiet for much of the time but I was often...
Went to Cow Island on a low tide on 3/12 but found some very good birds all the same including... Mongolian Dotterel 1 (in full breeding plumage!) Large Sand...
Hi all, here is a very brief selection of highlights - and a few things missing (?) over the past three weeks. I believe that our tally of 158 sps is a record...
Sav Saville
sav@...
Dec 9, 2007 4:05 am
6027
Jim's email (and some previous requests of a similar nature) prompts me to draw folk's attention to www.birdingnz.co.nz the website for the NZ Birding Network....
Chris Gaskin
kwtl@...
Dec 9, 2007 7:38 pm
6028
G'day birders, Aroha Island near Kerikeri, a well-known birding destination, particularly for Kiwis, is due to reopen this Sunday 16 Dec with a 'celebration'...
Sighted a bird I beleve to be a Wandering (Alaskan) Tattler at the end of stopbank track 9AM this morning in the company of Pied Stilts. The Black Stilt which...
Nice bird Ian, but it is a Grey-tailed Tattler not a Wandering. The long supercillium is diagnostic. Your bird also displays a ground colour which is just not...
Sav Saville
sav@...
Dec 11, 2007 4:57 am
6031
Thanks Sav. Thro' the binoculars the leg colour was deeper but I was unable to edit to correct intensity. Here is url of another shot taken this morning. ...
Sorry to hog the forum but here is a final shot of Tattler showing profile. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2102882642&size=l Ian Mc ... The ... colour...
Hi, I have the second coot in care (nearly dead) from nesting on Sullivan Lake in Whakatane. It has recently been sprayed with Roundup.......Are coots more...
Rosemary Tully
rosemarytully@...
Dec 11, 2007 7:01 pm
6035
Hi Rosemary, Glyphosate herbicides like the product you mentioned are non residual; unless the bird was actually dowsed in very high strength Glyphosate, which...
Kevin Matthews
kble@...
Dec 12, 2007 1:50 am
6036
Would appreciate confirmation or otherwise that little bird in this url is a Red-necked Stint. Shot taken on 30 October 2007 @ Ashley Rivermouth. ...
Baby banded dotterel! But very cute, very newly-fledged, and probably very small. Phil ___________________________ Dr Phil Battley Ecology Group Massey...
Battley, Phil
P.Battley@...
Dec 12, 2007 2:52 am
6038
Thank you Kevin, The coot( which died) was nesting on waterlilies which had been sprayed. Another family of coot have been seen eating the waterlily leaves....
Rosemary Tully
rosemarytully@...
Dec 12, 2007 3:09 am
6039
Thank you very much Chris,Andrew and Phil. Really appreciate the prompt responses. Baby Banded Dotterel. For interested parties this was taken with a Pentax...
Rosemary please double check that Glyphosate was the herbicide used to spray the island of water lily........which by rights should have been carried out...
Kevin Matthews
kble@...
Dec 12, 2007 6:16 am
6041
Farmers often spay pasture with glyphosate before cultivating and have stock graze it just a couple of days after application so it isn't wasted. Apparently it...
Hi all, A quick search revealed that Glyphosate is only slightly toxic to wild birds. Please read: ...
Rob Schuckard
rschckrd@...
Dec 12, 2007 7:46 am
6043
Hi all, This just received from George Watola: I'm on my dad's pc in Kerikeri, so can't post to Birding NZ. Could you pass on the message that there was a...
Sav Saville
sav@...
Dec 12, 2007 8:12 am
6044
Thanks for the lead on this book which I was able to track down on a late Nov visit...but not without great effort! Nowhere to be found on the shelves in...
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