Birds of Christchurch and Canterbury

From Ailsa Howard on Facebook: “Here is a very unusual visitor. As part of
the Hutton’s Flysafe week crashlanded birds are being brought into the
“Hub” by the Kaikoura Community and researches alike.
On Sat morning Ted went out to pick up a bird had been phoned in from the
local supermarket, and realised immediately it was not Hutton’s, and was
unlike any bird he’d ever seen.
To cut a long story short, he brought it into our HSCT meeting to check out
what to do with it. Well the meeting had to delay getting underway for an
hour while a collection of enthusiasic seabirders worked to identify it and
release it back to the sea.
Here it is: grey-backed-storm-petrel. A tiny creature of the big ocean,
rarely seen, and certainly not at the supermarket. 15g of birdie, compared
to 350g for Hutton’s. A teenie tiny and wonderfully unusual bird.”