Of all New Zealand’s native bird calls, it is perhaps the sharp whistle of a blue duck, or whio, that most thrills me. Early naturalist and conservationist Thomas Potts perhaps best summed up the experience: ‘Above the murmur comes a faint long whistle, in the turbulent pools that seethe and eddy around them, floats a […]
Mt Somers via Te Kiekie Route, Hakatere Conservation Park
The Tararua’s forgotten traverse
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