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New Zealand Other Birds

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Male Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula merula), Zealandia, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand

Female Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula merula), Zealandia, Wellington, North Island, New Zealand

Juvenile Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula merula), Te Anau, Southland, South Island, New Zealand

Male Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) foraging in a hot volcanic spring, Waimangu Volcanic Valley near Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand

Female Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) foraging in a steaming hot volcanic spring, Waimangu Volcanic Valley near Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand

Female Common Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) peering over the edge of a boardwalk for flying insects to pursue in the air, Okarito Wetland, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

Brown Creeper (Mohoua novaeseelandiae), West Coast Treetop Walk, Ruatapu, Hokitika, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

Brown Creeper (Mohoua novaeseelandiae), Ulva Island, Stewart Island, New Zealand

Shining Cuckoo (Shining Bronze-Cuckoo) (Chalcites [Chrysococcyx] lucidus lucidus), Okarito, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

Shining Cuckoo (Shining Bronze-Cuckoo) (Chrysococcyx [Chalcites] lucidus lucidus) holding a cranefly in its bill, Okarito, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

Shining Cuckoo (Shining Bronze-Cuckoo) (Chrysococcyx [Chalcites] lucidus lucidus), Okarito, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

Male Banded Dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus bicinctus) using a large piece of driftwood as a vantage point from which to guard his mate (not shown) who is sitting on eggs, Okarito, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

Male Banded Dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus bicinctus), Okarito, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

Female Banded Dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus bicinctus) on the nest, Okarito, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

Female Banded Dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus bicinctus), Lake Pukaki, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

Male Banded Dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus bicinctus), Lake Pukaki, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand

Warning sign protecting nesting area of North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius), Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius) on Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius), Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius) on Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius) foraging on Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius) on Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

Stream of water droplets falling from the beak of the North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius) on Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius) on Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius) washing an invertebrate food item in fresh water before eating it, Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius), Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius) with a Sandhopper (Bellorchestia quoyana) in its bill, Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

North Island subspecies of New Zealand Dotterel (Charadrius obscurus aquilonius), Otama Beach, Coromandel Peninsula, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand

Grey Duck (Anas superciliosa superciliosa) x Mallard hybrids, Wilderness Lodge, Lake Moeraki, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

South Island Fernbird (Bowdleria punctata ssp punctata) in typical wetland scrub habitat, Okarito, West Coast, New Zealand