Ian’s Bird of the Week - Auckland and Campbell Islands Teal by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 2/16/12 The almost predator-free nature of the Sub-Antarctic Islands before the Europeans and their pests arrived is well illustrated by the existence of two closely-related flightless ducks on the Auckland and Campbell Islands. The first photo shows a male [...]
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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Auckland and Campbell Islands Teal
Posted in Bird of the Week, tagged Anatidae, Auckland Islands, Bird of the Week, Birds, Birdwatching, Ian Montgomery, Nature, Photography, Teal on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Red-necked Crake
Posted in Bird of the Week, tagged Australia, Birds, Birdwatching, Crake, Ian Montgomery, Kingfisher Park, Nature, Photography, Rallidae on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Red-necked Crake ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 2/7/12 Every serious birder has his/her bogey birds. We’re talking about ‘an evil or mischievous spirit’ here that is invisible in his/her presence, not golf scores even though competition for longest life list among ‘twitchers’ is sometimes disparagingly called ‘birding golf’. [...]
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Kea
Posted in Bird of the Week, tagged Bird of the Week, Birds, Birdwatching, Ian Montgomery, Kea, Nature, New Zealand, Parrots, Strigopidae on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Kea ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 1/26/12 If you park near the entrance to the Homer Tunnel on the way to Milford Sound in Fiordland on the South Island of New Zealand, you are likely to be approached by one of these interesting-looking parrots. ‘Friendly-looking chap’, you might [...]
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Paradise Shelduck
Posted in Bird of the Week, Birds, tagged Anatidae, Anseriformes, Bird of the Week, Birds, Birdwatching, Ian Montgomery, New Zealand, Shelduck on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Paradise Shelduck ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter – 1/16/12 Shelducks are all rather splendid, so this one has to be particularly fine to earn the moniker ‘Paradise’. Interestingly, it is the white-headed female that is, I think, the more striking as in the first photo of a female having [...]
Ian’s Bird of the Week – South Island Wren/New Zealand Rockwren
Posted in Bird of the Week, tagged Acanthisittidae, Bird of the Week, Birds, Birdwatching, Ian Montgomery, Nature, New Zealand Wrens, Passeriformes, Rockwren on January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Ian’s Bird of the Week – South Island Wren/New Zealand Rockwren ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter – 1-9-12 Happy New Year! To celebrate the New Year, here is a representative of an unusual new family for the website, the New Zealand Wrens. There it is usually called the Rock Wren, though its international name is [...]
Ian’s Bird of the Week – King Penguin
Posted in Bird of the Week, tagged Bird of the Week, Birds, Birdwatching, Ian Montgomery, Macquarie Island, Nature, Penguin, Spheniscidae, Sphenisciformes on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ian’s Bird of the Week – King Penguin ~ by Ian Montgomery The Royal Penguins may have won the bird of the trip award on the basis of character, but the sartorial crown went to the King Penguin also very common on the beach at Macquarie Island. We’ll see later that they also won the [...]
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Red-crowned Parakeet
Posted in Bird of the Week, tagged Bird of the Week, Bird Watching, Birds, Birdwatching, Enderby Island, Ian Montgomery, Nature, Parakeet, Psittacidae on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ian’s Bird of the Week – Red-crowned Parakeet ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 12/20/11 Christmas is nearly on us, so a bird in the Christmas colours of red and green seems appropriate. Here is the Red-crowned Parakeet, one of the relatively few non-seabirds encountered on the trip to the Sub-Antarctic Islands. We found these [...]
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