Anyone out there considering the 1080-related deaths of Kea? I consider this to be grounds for a complete rethink on the broad-scale, indiscriminate aerial use...
We need to be clear here that at the POPULATION level 1080 use has been clearly demonstrated to benefit all native birds in NZ. Even if a significant number of...
Trevor Worthy
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Aug 2, 2008 1:41 am
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This morning my wife and I witnessed an attempted copulation between Tui in the cherry blossom tree container our sugar water feeders. The female appeared to...
Wynston & /or Lorrain...
lorwyn@...
Aug 2, 2008 2:18 am
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Silvereye numbers using our sugar water feeders this year are very much down on previous years. By this time of year we usually have up to 7 or 8 dozen birds...
Wynston & /or Lorrain...
lorwyn@...
Aug 2, 2008 2:28 am
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Anita Spencer of DOC sent two interesting items last week. A White Heron has set up home at the Harewood Crematorium and robbed its pond of all but the largest...
Jan Walker
shesagreen@...
Aug 2, 2008 4:38 am
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A white heron visiting the fishpond at Harewood Crematorium has happened before, as I recall. I think it will move on when the available/catchable food runs...
Stuart & Jane Nicholson
nicholson@...
Aug 2, 2008 5:11 am
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Tried to send this last week but it bounced back on me, sorry. Migrations are well and truly happening whenever the weather is vaguely reasonable and there are...
If anything this shows the significant risk that people feeding these birds can pose to their survival. Neil. _____ From: BIRDING-NZ@yahoogroups.com...
Thankyou trevor and neil for some sense I dont like to see kea dying but much much more horrific to me is walking through a silent forest or up a silent river...
Phil Hammond
philxhammond@...
Aug 3, 2008 12:08 am
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I have received a report of cirl bunting feeding on the berms of side streets on the eastern side of Blenheim, less than a block from the nearby paddocks....
Stuart & Jane Nicholson
nicholson@...
Aug 3, 2008 6:09 am
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Well said Phil, Gillian ... From: Phil Hammond To: birding-nz@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 12:08 PM Subject: [BIRDING-NZ] 1080 Thankyou trevor...
gillian.pollock
gillian.pollock@...
Aug 3, 2008 10:54 am
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Rarely am I driven to comment on the conservation efforts in NZ online - after all I come home to have a break from all that. However, I feel it necessary to...
Hi all, While I actually agree that the control program in NZ using 1080 is probably on the balance a very good thing, I'm a bit concerned by the tone being ...
During a short stop at the Otaki Waste Water Ponds last Friday afternoon (1 Aug.) I was surprised to count 13 dabchicks. Although a few dabchicks can usually...
Ian Armitage
ian.armitage@...
Aug 3, 2008 10:00 pm
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would you be interesting swapping say 6 of them for 6 Crested Grebes? We'd live some Dabchicks on the Oxidartion Ponds in CHCH! AC ...
Crossland, Andrew
andrew.crossland@...
Aug 3, 2008 10:16 pm
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It would be great to swap a few crested grebes for some dabchicks! - there seem to to be plenty of dabchicks about in the southern North Island. We live and...
Ian Armitage
ian.armitage@...
Aug 3, 2008 11:07 pm
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Hi Stuart, Cirl Buntings are pretty common in Marlborough and I don't doubt this report. I have often seen 20-40 birds in big mixed flocks with yellowhammers....
Mike Bell-8236
Mike.Bell@...
Aug 4, 2008 3:28 am
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hi ian we had 22 dabchicks in the storage basin at mangere "ponds" this winter incidentally we also had 17 scaup for 2 or 3 months which was...
Phil Hammond
philxhammond@...
Aug 4, 2008 4:45 am
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Hi Phil, Good to hear 22 Dabs at Mangere..........I have an awful feeling that the Aussie Grebes are displacing our Dabs on the Aupouri Pen. dune lakes. This...
Kevin Matthews
kble@...
Aug 4, 2008 5:47 am
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Apologies for cross-posting. Lately I've been uploading image and media to the Wikipedia Birds Project...
Dabchicks already have wandered across the Cook Strait in recent times, with records in the past few years from Golden Bay (somewhere near Takaka I think) and...
Nick Allen
nick_allen@...
Aug 4, 2008 10:15 am
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10 or so yrs ago there was a pop of A L Grebes established on shingle pits and farm ponds between Ashburton and Pleasant Pt. Some of the accessible sites were...
Crossland, Andrew
andrew.crossland@...
Aug 4, 2008 8:14 pm
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Bev Alexander has reported Cirl Buntings from the Blenheim suburbs for 2 winters now. Most recently at the end of last month from Taylor Pass Rd and in a mixed...
Jan Walker
shesagreen@...
Aug 5, 2008 12:07 am
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Marlborough District Council has failed to protect the Wairau River by allowing TrustPower to build a hydro power scheme. The Wairau River is home to several...
Suzi Phillips
suzi@...
Aug 5, 2008 4:28 am
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Hi, Just completed a trip report from a birding excursion to Pedra Branca last week. Here it is: http://www.ecology- ...
Hi All I have recently been sent an (unfortunately) long email list describing a series of incidents in which New Zealand falcons have been shot. These reports...
Shane McPherson
shane.mcpherson@...
Aug 5, 2008 8:17 am
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Hi Shane, I'd suggest that shooting of NZ Falcons occurs partly due to ignorance of identification. Many people don't know the difference between a Falcon and...
Suzi Phillips
suzi@...
Aug 5, 2008 10:39 am
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I fear changes in laws will not stop persons from shooting raptors or many other species (they surely don't stop people from shooting people) However Suzi is...
Hi All, law changes will not stop some indiscriminate shooting of raptors/falcons but they're certainly a step in the right direction.............as a tool for...
Kevin Matthews
kble@...
Aug 5, 2008 8:56 pm
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If you talk to pigeon fanciers who have some experience with falcons, you will quickly realise how much they hate these birds. The falcons will clean out a...
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