October 2017

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Weka on Kapiti Island. Photo: Shaun Barnett/Black Robin Photography
Watch your gear at these four places – there’s weka about Explorer Charlie Douglas reckoned that weka, not kiwi, should have been our national bird. He considered the flightless rail highly intelligent: ‘Here is a bird full of good qualities and whose vices lean to virtue’s side…. an undying thirst for knowledge – unthinking people […]
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