non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....

andrewcrossland · Postby **andrewcrossland** » Sun May 09, 2021 8:38 pm

some more merchandise options around the wrong kingfisher/Kotare....

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SomesBirder · Postby **SomesBirder** » Sun May 09, 2021 9:51 pm

Isn't the rifleman actually a bush wren?

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I suppose that that bird actually has more of a combination of features between the two species; if not for the colour of its tail and its legs and feet, it would probably look most like a bush wren.

andrewcrossland · Postby **andrewcrossland** » Mon May 10, 2021 11:09 am

ah.... um..... ok? says who??

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They look pretty different to most people...

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SomesBirder · Postby **SomesBirder** » Mon May 10, 2021 6:26 pm

The following pictures are from a very shoddy old table cloth.

Short-eared Morepork

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Green-thighed Pukeko

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Blood-crowned Kereru

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andrewcrossland · Postby **andrewcrossland** » Mon May 10, 2021 10:55 pm

Here's a couple of hybrid-looking things....

1. A Morepork x Harrier from Selwyn District Council

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and 2. what looks like a Caspian Tern x "commic tern" from the Wairarapa

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Jake · Postby **Jake** » Tue May 11, 2021 3:14 pm

In the film The Light Between Oceans there is a scene at the church cemetery and a NZ bellbird won't shut up. The film used NZ locations but supposed to be set in Tasmania. Bit of a flip on the theme of this post... there are definitely worse geo-ornithological and/or bird audio blunders in film

SomesBirder · Postby **SomesBirder** » Tue May 11, 2021 3:18 pm

andrewcrossland wrote:tern 1.JPG

I notice also that the southern black-backed gull is included under the Threatened species!
Here's another instance of a Banded Rail being labelled as a Weka, from E. C. Richards' The Chatham Islands: their Plants, Birds and People (1952). It's interesting how on the same page the Dieffenbach's Rail is implied to be conspecific with one of the rails on Lord Howe Island.

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SomesBirder · Postby **SomesBirder** » Tue May 11, 2021 4:07 pm

The following pictures are from a guide pamphlet to the wild birds of Nga Manu. It isn't very old and I think that it is possibly still being sold there.

It looks to me like the head shapes of the paradise shelducks and the mallard were somehow switched around here! The grey duck also looks a bit wrong but not as much as the mallard does.

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I think that I can possibly make out a dark band on this swallow's neck but it's impossible to be certain.

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The illustration is in hopelessly poor quality but I don't think that this is a sparrow.

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SomesBirder · Postby **SomesBirder** » Wed May 12, 2021 7:19 pm

This photo is from an art festival that happened in January. Fortunately the owls weren't labelled as moreporks.

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Pukeko-Coot from A Field Guide to New Zealand's Lakes and Rivers (Parkinson & Cox, 1990).

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SomesBirder · Postby **SomesBirder** » Thu May 13, 2021 5:19 pm

A mural from Milford, Auckland. The Eurasian Tree Sparrow is not visible in the third photograph, which must mean either that it was added after the rest of the mural was finished, or that it got removed.