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...
There is a very distinctive smell found on seabird colonies, where thousands upon thousands of birds come to breed and, coincidentally, deposit large quantities...
The order Suliformes holds a lot of special birds from anhingas and darters to cormorants and shags as well as frigatebirds, pelicans, and tropicbirds. But...
You have got to admire the Manx Shearwater. As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for...
Last week I introduced the Great Frigatebird, one of five species of man-o-war bird. I got rather carried away showing all the plumages you...
I’ve always thought there is something prehistoric about frigatebirds, as something about their shape evokes in my mind the shape I imagine the later...
After the monumental climb that was Tongariro Crossing (related last week) Nicole and I parted company with our other friends and moved on to...
It sometimes feels like conservation news is nothing but doom and gloom, so sit back and enjoy a recent success story from New Zealand....
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