Re: non NZ birds mistakenly shown as NZ birds....
Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:44 pm
Just up in Auckland for a few days and they have some interesting Gulls in their car parks parking cars
New Zealand birdwatching discussion forum.
https://www.birdingnz.net/forum/
Ian McLean wrote:Hello Somesbirder
In regard to the "'wrong kingfisher' problem", have you already contacted Living Light Candles to advise them of their error ?
Just checking before I send them an email.
Regards
Ian McLean
andrewcrossland wrote:Hi folks,
I've just been reading back through these posts and much of the use of the wrong bird has either to do with unknowledgeable people doing something like a google search and simply getting the wrong species, or artists who are clearly painting from images not from real life. But the example that CMKM Stephens pointed out back in his post of 25 Jan reaches a whole new level of crazy!......
https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/n ... tare-mural
I mean, really?! That's a "Kotare"?.
I mean from the sizeable group of people involved with this project and who worked together to put these two mural birds up on the wall so their community could build some greater affiliation with nature, was there not one of them who even knew what a kotare actually looks like? Maybe that's a pretty revealing indictment on something in this country that ain't quite working - a sense of affiliation with our indigenous wildlife without actually having any familiarity with it??.......
Here are the 2 kingfishers in the mural in case you missed them: They are absolutely awesome paintings, simply gorgeous, but they're of a species of bird that lives thousands of miles away on another continent!
kingfisher 1.JPG
Kingfisher 2.JPG
And check out the design on the matching jackets!
Someone in Wellington needs to sensitively and quietly have a friendly chat with these guys - maybe just substitute the word kingfisher for kotare and paint an actual kotare on a nearby wall?