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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Pacific Robin ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter – 3/25/12 The Pacific Robin was another bird that I was keen to photograph on Norfolk Island. It has only recently been split from the mainland Scarlet Robin and, until that happened, it attracted little attention. As a consequence, I had trouble [...]

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Norfolk Island Parakeet ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 3/15/12 Well, your unwavering moral and spiritual support has done it again: here is the Tasman or Norfolk Island Parakeet (better known here as the Green Parrot to distinguishing it from the introduced Red Parrot – the Crimson Rosella). Thank [...]

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – Yellow-crowned Parakeet ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 3/8/12 Last December, the Red-crowned Parakeet was the bird of the week http://www.birdway.com.au/psittacidae/red_crowned_parakeet/index.htm . That was photographed on Enderby Island in the Auckland Islands one of the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic islands. Here is a close relative the Yellow-crowned Parakeet photographed on the same [...]

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Ian’s Bird of the Week – New Zealand/Sub-Antarctic Snipe ~ by Ian Montgomery Newsletter ~ 2/29/12 My apologies for a late Bird of the Week. Lots of excuses are presenting themselves, as they do, but I won’t bore you with them. I’ve chosen another mostly good news conservation story from the Sub-Antarctic islands, the New [...]

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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 – 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’. [...]

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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 [...]

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