Birds of Christchurch and Canterbury

TO ALL SOUTHERN BIRDERS – the Kea Conservation Trust is running a survey of kea each weekend afternoon during July. There is now only one weekend to go! If anyone is planning on being out in the Southern Alps, the Kaikoura Mtns and along the South Islands West coast, please visit the kea website (www.keaconservation.co.nz) [...]

June city-wide annual Pukeko census of key wintering sites – totals: Styx Mill Basin = 201, Linwood paddocks = 555, Travis Wetland = 308, Upper Lyttelton Harbour = 149, Heathcote Valley; Aidanfield area = 194; Heathcote valley = 121

Hi All, Meet at 9.30am far end of Embankment Rd with gumboots, scopes and bins if you have them!. Hot drinks and food optional, wet-weather gear essential. The weather looks like reasonable, even NW winds, possible showers on Sunday at this stage, but not a lot. So Saturday ought to be OK.   While you [...]

Landcare Research, in collaboration with Forest & Bird and the Ornithological Society, established a garden bird survey to monitor the distribution and population trends of common garden birds in New Zealand. New Additional questions and answers Garden Bird Survey blog Recording form 60KB Identification flyer with recording form, low resultion 296KB Identification flyer with recording [...]

Answer next week 1st of Feb

White-faced Storm petrel

  Answer On the 5/1/2010. To see more Mysterys bird photos click on link at the top of the page or http://www.birdsofchristchurch.co.nz/?page_id=144

White-Flippered Blue Penguin found dead along the beach near the Waimakariri River mouth. Possibly the result of a dog attack

Hi folksd, DoC picked up a live Antarctic Fulmar from a garden in Sth New Brighton tonight and the bird is currrently being cared for by local bird rehabilitation expert Jackie Stevenson. I did a beach patrol from southsore spit to the Waimakariri rivermouth today to see if any other seabirds had come ashore. Totals [...]

Hello All,   We had our last evening meeting of the year last night with Richard Holdaway talking to 25 people about bird migration and his theory which removes any intelligent thought from the bird’s brain. Watch this space. Gormless Godwits.   NEXT FIELDTRIP THIS SAT, 5th DEC starts at 9am end of Embankment Rd. [...]