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

[andrewcrossland]

There’s a new sub-division down my way called Falcon’s Landing. Not sure if they intend the reference to be NZ Falcon or not but every image I’ve seen them use till now has been everything but!

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[SomesBirder]

There was a New Zealand waterfowl rescue facility that had a website with a banner at the top which included several photos of waterfowl in it. I remember that one of the photos showed what I now think was a male Tufted Duck. The website seems to have disappeared since; does anyone else here remember it?

I have located the banner. It was on the "Duckman" Bird Rescue website, which expired last year. The url now redirects to the website of the Wellington Bird Rehabilitation Trust, which appears to be run by the same people.

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A male Ring-necked Duck, is it?

[AlanShaw]

Yes, that's a male Ring-necked Duck, natural range North America, but I've seen several vagrants in England over the years.

[Grahame]

Yep Alan, it sure is, and it brings back memories to me. In 1958-9 my birding pal and I found a bird that wasn't a Tufted Duck, but was very similar in a gravel pit near where we lived. As it didn't feature in any British or European guides at the time, we told our art teacher who we knew was keen on birds. He went out that night and promptly claimed a second for the UK.

[David Riddell]

Annette's reading a New Zealand novel called Magpie Hall at the moment. It centres around the house whose name provides the title, so called because of all the magpies that live around it. Though it's set in NZ and the magpies are obviously Australian, all the images for the book are of European magpies.
https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/magpie- ... 1869792886

[SomesBirder]

Metalbird New Zealand is a company that sells 2D metallic ornaments of native birds. Upon seeing the ornament for the Black Robin (which is actually supposed to be the South Island Robin, according to their FB), I was suspicious of the possibility that the shape of the ornament was actually derived from the shape of the European Robin.

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As it turns out, I was right. The "Metalbird" brand actually originates in the Netherlands, and the Black/South Island Robin ornament is actually a modified version of the Dutch company's European Robin ornament, which looks like this.

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Their Ruru/Morepork isn't correct, either! The Dutch company's website advertises exactly the same ornament as "Steenuil"!

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Also, did a post from this thread get deleted recently?

[andrewcrossland]

This is an interesting one I came across today. The place mat on the right is clearly a pretty good rendition of a NZ Kingfisher, but the one on the left, while it could be too, is almost a dead ringer for one of the Indonesian forms of Collared Kingfisher - the dark greenish-blue/white plumage, really thick black eye stripe, etc, all suggest its maybe copied from a Collared Kingfisher rather than a NZ/Sacred.

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[SomesBirder]

This is part of a jigsaw puzzle from a New Zealand artist.

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The bird furthest left is supposed to be a fantail, according to one of the artist's other works, and the puzzle is indeed supposed to feature bird species that are found in New Zealand.
It was sold last year and is going to be re-released in time for the holiday season this year, apparently without being altered.
The strange thing is that the artist has made other art pieces that depict the actual New Zealand fantail and kingfisher!

[Adam C]

Lol...good old ecan. Always in touch with our ecology...

[SomesBirder]

A recent FB post from Kāpiti Now Advertising.

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The post doesn’t say anything about the owl's identity, but I suppose that it goes without saying that there are probably some people who saw the post and assumed that the owl is a ruru.