Turangi Blue Ducks

Bird sighting information. Use this forum to report bird sightings (especially rare and unusual birds), census and field count results, and trip reports. Messages posted to this forum will also be sent as a plain text email to the BIRDING-NZ newsgroup.
Post Reply Previous topicNext topic
User avatar
sav
Posts: 935
Joined: Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:49 am
Location: Havelock North
Contact:
Contact sav

Turangi Blue Ducks

Postby sav » Sun Oct 13, 2019 10:00 pm

Hi all,

I'm on tour at the moment, and we were at Turangi last night. We saw one Blue Duck at Major Jones' Pool in the evening and a pair this morning.

Two separate locals told us that the pair had already fledged and "kicked out" a brood of 3 (or 5?) that were full grown.

I find that really hard to believe, but does anyone else think/know that it can be true?

Another pair that we found had fluffy, week-old, chicks

cheers
Sav Saville
Wrybill Birding Tours, NZ
Great Birds, Real Birders
Top
User avatar
RussCannings
Posts: 1217
Joined: Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:23 am

Re: Turangi Blue Ducks

Postby RussCannings » Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:17 am

Perhaps they meant last summer's brood? I'm not sure.
Top
User avatar
philbattley
Posts: 667
Joined: Wed May 20, 2009 2:21 pm

Re: Turangi Blue Ducks

Postby philbattley » Mon Oct 14, 2019 10:50 pm

We were in the Ruahines with DOC on the weekend doing trapline checks, and some of the other folks saw pairs of whio with 5 chicks each. Not fledged, but still pretty early.
Top
Post Reply Previous topicNext topic

Return to “Bird Sightings and Alerts”