Birds are easy to find in New Zealand’s biggest city – this gannet colony at Muriwai is one of several sites for birders. Photo: Pedro Fernandez/Creative Commons

Flying high

December 2017

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Forget Predator Free 2050, our unique native birds are already attracting the interest of the birding world.

On a rainy Sunday afternoon on a mudflat on the Firth of Thames, a small wooden shed is filled with people, eyes glued to binoculars, brows furrowed in deep concentration. The only sound is the drizzle on the corrugated iron roof. On the tidal plains in front, thousands of birds pick through the sand on […]
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