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Birding

Road birding in New Zealand

August 10, 2011 by Duncan 2 Comments

Of all the dangerous sports birders risk their necks in in the pursuit of birds, birding while driving is perhaps the most common threat...

Birds

Sea Fairies

August 3, 2011 by Duncan 1 Comment

I’ve got two longer more wordy posts in a half finished condition this week, so rather than rush them out unfinished I’m afraid it’s...

Birds

Angel Terns

July 27, 2011 by Duncan 12 Comments

The IOC World Bird list proposed a number of unconventional bird names, most notably the Great Northern Loon (Gavia immer) and the Roughleg (Buteo...

Birds

A Wreck of Prions

July 19, 2011 by Duncan 9 Comments

I’m not sure what the collective noun for a group of petrels is, but the vets and wildlife carers of New Zealand might be...

Birds

Mana from Heaven

July 6, 2011 by Duncan 4 Comments

It’s a plover, and it lives on the shore. What more do you need to know? Actually, there is a great deal more that...

Birding

An Imperial Twitch

June 29, 2011 by Duncan 12 Comments

It was only just a few days ago that I was poking fun of twitchers in Alan’s post about White-throated Robins and such. The...

Birding, Inspiration

Days of Guano

June 22, 2011 by Duncan 8 Comments

There is a very distinctive smell found on seabird colonies, where thousands upon thousands of birds come to breed and, coincidentally, deposit large quantities...

Birding

Tongatapu and ‘Eua; Birding Southern Tonga

June 15, 2011 by Duncan 4 Comments

I mentioned last week, while talking about rails and the Pacific, that Tonga is not a particularly birdy birding destination. A combination of extinctions...

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