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Birds

Stalking a Kiwi Icon

March 16, 2011 by Duncan 3 Comments

Has it really taken me twenty one posts to get around to kiwi? Apparently it has!

Trips

Tiritiri Matangi Island

March 9, 2011 by Duncan 5 Comments

The day after the exciting day’s pelagic birdwatching (that I related last week) I was back in the Hauraki Gulf. This time Nicole and...

Politics

Aftershocks

February 23, 2011 by Duncan 5 Comments

Given the events of the last 24 hours it seemed inappropriate to have my weekly New Zealand post be about a jolly pelagic trip....

Trips

Volcano country

February 2, 2011 by Duncan 6 Comments

Last December I took the opportunity to drive the length of North Island with my Kiwi flatmate Nicole. The trip was a chance for...

Conservation

Getting acclimatised

January 12, 2011 by Duncan 1 Comment

The third stage of the extinction events I’ve been cataloguing here began with the settlement of New Zealand by Europeans, mainly Brits, after the...

Birds

Bouncing storm-petrels

December 29, 2010 by Duncan 4 Comments

Christmas and my current trip north means that I’ll be taking a break from my six-part examination of New Zealand extinctions this week. Instead...

Birding

Enter the Rat

December 22, 2010 by Duncan 4 Comments

“The only mammal present is the harmless Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans” Gordon Williams, 1962 “the Pacific rat was the only factor in the extinction...

Conservation

The remarkable coincidence

December 15, 2010 by Duncan 6 Comments

“I will not portray islands as outstanding natural laboratories because not many of them are natural any more.” David Steadman, Extinction and Biogeography of...

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