About 40 Bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica) arrived on the Avon-Heathcote Estuary yesterday afternoon, to be followed today and over the next few weeks by up to 2000 more. These join a flock of about 190 juvenile birds that had stayed on the estuary over winter. Christchurch City Council ranger Andrew Crossland confirmed 40 godwits at [...]
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New Zealand albatross making massive flights
Posted in Albatross, Aotearoa, bird, birds, chick, conservation, Department of Conservation, doc, ecological, extinction, Inspiration, new zealand, travel, wildlife, world on October 10, 2007 |
New Zealand albatross making massive flights – New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz Three New Zealand birds are enjoying their big OE and are not expected back for years. The three northern royal albatross are being monitored as part of a Massey University PhD student’s research into their behaviour. Conservation Minister Chris Carter said a chick [...]
DOC goes digital intoducing- “meet the locals” tvnz6
Posted in birds, conservation, Department of Conservation, doc, ecological, environment, life, meet the locals, nature, new zealand, nz, sustainability, travel, trees, tvnz, wildlife, world on October 1, 2007 |
Some of the country’s shyest, weirdest and rarest inhabitants have stepped into the limelight on TVNZ’s new digital channel, TVNZ 6. Meet the Locals is a new series of four-minute shows featuring everything from electric fishing for our enigmatic native fish, to getting up close and personal with New Zealand’s mysterious short-tailed bats. The series [...]
Rare kiwi thriving on Tiritiri Matangi
Posted in Aotearoa, Auckland, bird, birds, bush, conservation, doc, environment, island, kiwi, Little spotted kiwi, nature, new zealand, Norway rat, nz, Tiritiri Matangi, travel, wildlife on September 20, 2007 |
Rare kiwi thriving on Tiritiri Matangi: Media releases Little spotted kiwi have more than doubled in number on their Hauraki Gulf island home in the last five years, according to the results of a recent Department of Conservation survey. The population of kiwi on Tiritiri Matangi has grown to more than 60 (estimated at 60-80 [...]
New Zealand Ecological Society Annual Conference 2007
Posted in Aotearoa, bird, birds, conservation, ecological, environment, Inspiration, nature, new zealand, nz, Philosophy, sustainability, travel, trees, Wetlands on September 13, 2007 |
NZES Annual Conference 2007 click on image for the link The 2007 conference of the New Zealand Ecological Society is set for 18–23 November, in Christchurch. The venue will be the Central lecture block at the Ilam campus of the University of Canterbury. The conference features a major symposium titled “Feathers to Fur: the ecological [...]
bar-tailed godwits , To Alaska and back
Posted in bird, birds, dunes, godwit, Inspiration, life, nature, new zealand, nz, travel, wildlife, world on September 11, 2007 |
A record-breaking godwit known as E7 is refuelling in the Firth of Thames after having made it all the way to Alaska and back wearing a surgically implanted satellite transmitter. The female bird was the first of 16 bar-tailed godwits tagged in February by ecologist Dr Phil Battley, from Massey University, to return to New [...]
Lifetime’s Work Wins Top Book Award
Posted in botanical, bush, conifers, conservation, ecological, environment, fungi, life, mushroom, new zealand, nz, Photography, Tongariro, travel, trees, wetland, Wetlands, wildernesses, wildlife on August 2, 2007 |
Eagle’s Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand, a book that took author and painter, Audrey Eagle more than 50 years to complete, is the winner of the 2007 Montana Medal for non fiction. The two-volume work contains more than 800 hand painted plates; images of every single New Zealand tree and shrub, some of [...]
Sanctuary Visitor & Education Centre gets the green light
Posted in doc, fantail, fungi, kiwi, Photography, river, travel, Wetlands on June 7, 2007 |
#115: Sanctuary Visitor & Education Centre gets the green light “The Karori Sanctuary is perfectly positioned to showcase New Zealand conservation and to bring our conservation story to life, especially for those thousands of New Zealanders who never normally have the opportunity to experience conservation in action. It is estimated the Visitor and Education Centre [...]
Satellite-tracking the flight of the godwit
Posted in birds, bush, environment, godwit, nature, new zealand, nz, travel, world on March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Scoop: Satellite-tracking the flight of the godwit As the last bar-tailed godwits leave New Zealand estuaries on their northern migration to Alaska this week, Massey scientists will trace their journey via satellite-tagged individuals. more
Perspective | Futility Closet
Posted in climate change, environment, global warming, Inspiration, Philosophy, travel, world on January 17, 2007 |
Perspective | Futility Closet Earth seen from 4 billion miles away, photographed by Voyager 1 on June 6, 1990 Of the “pale blue dot,” astronomer Carl Sagan said, “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out [...]
kahu , new zealand hawk
Posted in bush, conservation, environment, hawk, nature, new zealand, nz, river, riverstone, sustainability, travel, valley, video, wellington, whakatikei, whakatikei river valley restoration on December 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Kahu ….. before i had the pleasure of having, him/her ? fly from my hands i managed to get some video of this new zealand hawk , awesome to see them flying around here . whakatikei river valley restoration project
tracks of sooty shearwaters
Posted in environment, nature, new zealand, travel, world on December 12, 2006 |
Tracks of sooty shearwaters as they make their way back and forth across the Pacific Ocean. Tracking the birds by satellite, CoML scientists found they would make a round trip of about 70,000km over 200 days in search of food, averaging 350km per day.
little white flowers
Posted in bush, environment, life, music, nature, nz, Philosophy, Photography, river, riverstone, sustainability, travel, valley, video, whakatikei, whakatikei river valley restoration on November 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
a short video i made to show this flower that is out in mass at the moment, it is mainly on the edges of the bush
Whakatikei Forest Restoration Project
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