New Zealand

One common feature of the relationship between early explorers and colonists and the birds of the New Worlds was the tendency of said explorers to…

Just a quick one this week as life is crazy and rattles relentlessly onwards. Since everyone loves parrots, I thought I’d  post…

Were one to draw up one of those lists of “top ten x to see before you die”, a formula…

If there is one thing that Kiwis care about, it’s birds. No, wait, not birds. Rugby. Kiwis care about rugby. A…

Of all the dangerous sports birders risk their necks in in the pursuit of birds, birding while driving is perhaps…

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

As entertaining as it has been reading about the lovely spring migrations in North America recently, it might be worth…

Although the only pine forests found in New Zealand are recent plantations of Northern Hemisphere Pinus species like the Monterey…

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

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