A video- and a few pictures- talking about two birds on the to-do list for translocation that arrived themselves and saved us the trouble. And a bonus (??) third bird also.
And, by request, bellbird singing in the rain at dawn:
Finally got a fernbird photo:
A video reporting that fluttering shearwater have not nested this season at our starter colony, with expert analysis from Helen Gummer:
Do feel free to watch Part 1 first (a shorter and less amateurish version than you might have already watched).
***Helen clarifies that when she refers in the video to young birds breeding at 3-4 years, she is talking about them arriving at the colony for the first time to prepare for breeding. They generally start nesting at 4-5 years.
Also, there’s a nice article about seabirds in the September/October New Zealand Geographic (Issue 183, pp 78-89).
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