Shining Cuckoo heard at The Groynes, north Christchurch yesterday.
Ann Sherlock
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Shining Cuckoo heard at The Groynes, north Christchurch yesterday. Ann Sherlock Definitive evidence of new arrivals today – 458 Godwits present at high tide, and increase of 165 on numbers yesterday and 140+ more than highest confirmed winter count. A number seen with residual breding plumage and many feeding over high tide. The flagged birds reported in recent days may well have been new arrivals (part […] bumped into a juv YEP coming out of the surf at Spencerville Beach, NE Christchurch late this afternoon. It was banded so I thought it might be one of the juvs fledged from the 7+ pairs that breed on nearby Banks Peninsula. The number was J19062, which my contacts in DoC tell me is an […] Influx of New Zealand Pipits, moving in from the high country. 20+ Swallow, Small movement of Migration. 1 Pheasant 5 Wrybills 12 Bar-tailed Godwit 1 Kingfisher 1 NZ pipit 1 Shinning Cuckoo singing “The Bar-Tailed Godwits Have Arrived” Alaska Bird Makes Longest Nonstop Flight Ever Measured Dave Hansford in Wellington, New Zealand for National Geographic News September 14, 2007The bird, a wader called a bar-tailed godwit, completed […] 1 Black Stilt 1 Hybrid Stilt Black/Pied 43 Pied Stilt 1 Sharp-Tailed Sandpiper (first of the year) 12 Red-Necked Stint 3 Turnstone c250 Wrybill 60+ Banded Dotterel |
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