Re: non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....
Posted: Sat May 15, 2021 7:24 pm
More confused pest control outfits............. and a bunch of species that have never been seen anywhere near NZ!!
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Re: non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....
Posted: Sat May 15, 2021 8:11 pm
I'd be pretty stoked to find one of these walking amongst the pohutukawa and toe toe on a Northland beach somewhere. I reckon my phone would be running pretty hot as folks took sickie's off work, booked flights or otherwise found a way to get up there real quick!!
Re: non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....
Posted: Sun May 16, 2021 11:52 pm
Web page errors.
Re: non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....
Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 6:22 pm
I think that this is what one might see upon visiting the house of a friend of a friend who is "crazy about birds".
Re: non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....
Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 8:32 pm
There's obviously a lot of money to be made supplying the market demand for paintings of the wrong NZ Kingfisher?Kotare !!
But once again, there's some great NZ bird artist talent out there!
But once again, there's some great NZ bird artist talent out there!
Re: non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....
Posted: Mon May 17, 2021 8:56 pm
What do folks make of the gull in the top left corner of this web page? Look at its eye and skin colour around the eye ......…
Re: non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 12:16 pm
Not just birds. Here's a recent article featuring a picture of a kotukutuku, Fuchsia excorticata, that's actually an exotic species.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-ch ... JWB4YKY4I/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-ch ... JWB4YKY4I/
Re: non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 4:55 pm
andrewcrossland wrote:What do folks make of the gull in the top left corner of this web page? Look at its eye and skin colour around the eye ......…
gull.jpg
Maybe a European herring gull? This one seems to have a fairly similar shape and size of the eye ring, but I can't say the same about the colour.
Re: non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 8:30 pm
I reckon so too........ it came from this website which otherwise got the birds right.
Re: non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....
Posted: Tue May 18, 2021 9:17 pm
An interesting contribution to the national craze of celebrating the wrong kingfisher by the Rotorua City Council, but I'm impressed they have a Chestnut-breasted Shelduck on the same mural. That's class!!