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Birds (mostly from New Zealand)

1541 images Created 23 Apr 2009

New Zealand bird photography, including the kea, kaka, yellow-eyed penguin, little blue penguin, tui, bellbird, albatross, forest birds, wading birds, sea birds, and more!

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  • A molting Yellow-eyed Penguin with a bill full of feathers, New Zealand
    Molting Yellow-eyed Penguin 01.jpg
  • Bar-tailed Godwit, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
    Bar-tailed Godwit 01.jpg
  • Kaka, Stewart Island, New Zealand
    Kaka 03.jpg
  • Sacred Kingfisher, with mud crab, Invercargill Estuary, New Zealand
    Sacred Kingfisher 02.jpg
  • Eastern Great Egret, (kotuku), Invercargill Estuary, New Zealand
    Eastern Great Egret 02.jpg
  • Tui capped with orange flax pollen, New Zealand
    Tui 01.jpg
  • Yellow-eyed penguin, swimming in a pond just inland from the beach at Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
    Yellow-Eyed Penguin 05.jpg
  • Yellow-eyed Penguin, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
    Yellow-eyed Penguin 10.jpg
  • Blue Penguin, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
    Blue Penguin 02.jpg
  • Wood Pigeon, Stewart Island, New Zealand
    New Zealand Wood Pigeon 01.jpg
  • Silvereye, Stewart Island, New Zealand
    Silvereye 05_0018.jpg
  • Spotted shag, Riverton, New Zealand (female in front, male in back)
    Spotted Shag 01_8461.jpg
  • White-fronted Tern in flight, at Curio Bay
    White-Fronted Tern 1.jpg
  • Kea, Fiordland, New Zealand
    Kea 22_9111.jpg
  • Australasian Crested Grebe, Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand
    Crested Grebe 01.jpg
  • White-faced Heron, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
    White-faced Heron 01.jpg
  • Kea, early winter dawn in Fiordland, New Zealand
    Kea 02_2095.jpg
  • Red-crowned parakeet, New Zealand
    Red-Crowned Parakeet 01.jpg
  • Black Shag, Okarito Lagoon, New Zealand
    Black Shag 01.jpg
  • Variable Oystercatcher, Ulva Island, New Zealand
    Variable Oystercatcher 01.jpg
  • Kaka, Stewart Island, New Zealand
    Kaka 06.jpg
  • Kea, early winter dawn in Fiordland, New Zealand
    Kea 01_2101.jpg
  • Kiwi, weather vane
    Kiwi 07.jpg
  • Yellow-eyed Penguin, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
    Yellow-eyed Penguin 11.jpg
  • Great Blue Heron (8x24 inch print)
    Great Blue Heron (8x24 in).jpg
  • Royal Spoonbill, Catlins, New Zealand (12x33 inch print)
    Royal Spoonbill 1 (12x33 in).jpg
  • Bar-tailed Godwit, Okarito Lagoon, New Zealand
    Bar-tailed Godwits 02.jpg
  • Green Heron, Florida, North America
    Green Heron Reflection.jpg
  • Tui, Riverton, New Zealand
    Tui 07.jpg
  • Broad-billed hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris)
    Broad-billed hummingbird 1.jpg
  • Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao)
    Scarlet Macaw, Ara macao 01.jpg
  • Killdeer, baby, North America
    Baby Killdeer 1.jpg
  • Great Egret, Florida, North America
    Great Egret 11.jpg
  • Paradise Shelduck, Southland, New Zealand
    Paradise Shelduck 03_8635.jpg
  • Southern Royal Albatross getting ready to fly.  Otago Peninsula, New Zealand.
    Southern Royal Albatross 03.jpg
  • Yellow-crowned parakeet, Ulva Island, New Zealand
    Yellow-crowned Parakeet 01.jpg
  • Saddleback, Ulva Island, New Zealand
    Saddleback.jpg
  • South Island Tomtit, Dunedin, New Zealand
    South Island Tomtit 01.jpg
  • juvenile Barn Swallows in a mud nest, North America
    Barn Swallow Nest 1.jpg
  • Ring-necked Pheasant
    Common Pheasant 01.jpg
  • Kea, along Milford Track at night, New Zealand
    Kea 06.jpg
  • Mallard.  Family of ducklings going for a stroll.
    Mallard.jpg
  • the first two masked lapwings recorded in New Zealand were in Invercargill in 1932.  Since then, they have become widespread throughout New Zealand.
    Spur-winged Plover 01.jpg
  • Barn owl portrait, showing delicate hair-like facial feathers known as vibrissae.  Vibrissae are extremely touch-sensitive and serve to enhance nocturnal birds' senses in the dark.
    Barn Owl 01.jpg
  • Kaka, Stewart Island, New Zealand
    Kaka 01.jpg
  • white-fronted tern handing a fish to a hungry friend, Curio Bay, New Zealand
    Tern with Fish 1.jpg
  • Peacock.jpg
  • getting ready to fly...
    Blue and Gold Macaw.jpg
  • Newborn Eastern Bluebirds cheep for their next meal in their nest.  Georgia, North America.
    Baby Bluebirds in Nest.jpg
  • Albino Peacock Portrait
    Albino Peacock.jpg
  • Three tuis perched out in Riverton, New Zealand
    Tui 03.jpg
  • Rainbow Lorikeet
    Rainbow Lorikeet.jpg
  • Shy Albatross, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
    Shy Albatross 01.jpg
  • Blue Penguin, New Zealand
    Blue Penguin 01.jpg
  • Peafowl
    Peafowl 01.jpg
  • White-fronted Tern hovering in the air, at Curio Bay
    White-Fronted Tern 2.jpg
  • Southern Royal Albatross, getting ready to fly.  Otago Peninsula, New Zealand.
    Southern Royal Albatross 01.jpg
  • Lovebirds
    Lovebirds.jpg
  • white-faced heron flying over Curio Bay, New Zealand
    White-faced Heron flight sequence 08.jpg
  • Raven 01.jpg
  • Silvereye, Sandy Point Reserve, New Zealand
    Silvereye 01_2318.jpg
  • yellow-eyed penguin
    Yellow-eyed Penguin 04.jpg
  • Yellow-eyed penguin, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
    Yellow-Eyed Penguin 03.jpg
  • Spur-winged Plover / Masked Lapwing, Riverton, New Zealand
    Spur-winged Plover 02.jpg
  • Kaka, Stewart Island, New Zealand
    Kaka 05.jpg
  • South Island Tomtit, New Zealand
    South Island Tomtit 04.jpg
  • Kaka, Stewart Island, New Zealand
    Kaka 02.jpg
  • Variable Oystercatcher, Ulva Island, New Zealand
    Variable Oystercatcher 03.jpg
  • Tui feeding on nectar of flax
    Tui 02.jpg
  • Stewart Island Weka, Ulva Island, New Zealand
    Weka 01.jpg
  • Paradise shelduck, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
    Paradise Shelduck 20.jpg
  • Great Egret, Florida, North America
    Great Egret 13.jpg
  • white-faced heron flying over Curio Bay
    White-faced Heron in flight 07.jpg
  • white-faced heron flying over Curio Bay
    White-faced Heron in flight 06.jpg
  • blue and gold macaw portrait
    Blue and Gold Macaw (Ara ararauna) 2.jpg
  • Broad-billed hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris)
    Broad-billed Hummingbird 2.jpg
  • thanks for the fish!
    Tern with Fish 2.jpg
  • Australasian Crested Grebe, Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand
    Crested Grebe 02.jpg
  • Tui feeding on nectar of flax
    Tui 04.jpg
  • Tui at Riverton, New Zealand
    Tui 06.jpg
  • Kelp Gull, New Zealand
    Kelp Gull 02.jpg
  • Wood Pigeon, Ulva Island, New Zealand
    Wood Pigeon 02.jpg
  • Shy Albatross, Stewart Island, New Zealand
    Shy Albatross 03.jpg
  • white-fronted tern flight sequence
    Tern Flight Sequence.jpg
  • Shy Albatross, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
    Shy Albatross 02.jpg
  • Kelp Gull, New Zealand
    Kelp Gull 01.jpg
  • White-faced Heron, Curio Bay, New Zealand
    White-faced Heron 03_2379.jpg
  • Kea, Homer Tunnel, Fiordland, New Zealand
    Kea 07.jpg
  • Kea, along Homer Tunnel, Fiordland, New Zealand
    Kea 08.jpg
  • Wood Pigeon, Pigeon Island, New Zealand
    Wood Pigeon 4 (Silhouette).jpg
  • Scaup, Pigeon Island, New Zealand
    New Zealand Scaup 03.jpg
  • Pied Shag, Poor Knights Island, New Zealand
    Pied Shag 01.jpg
  • Great Blue Heron
    Great Blue Heron 03.jpg
  • Yellow-eyed Penguin, Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
    Yellow-eyed Penguin 02.jpg
  • white-fronted tern showing off its fork tail
    Forktail on Tern.jpg
  • Red-billed gull, Catlins, New Zealand
    Red-billed Gull 03.jpg
  • nesting female Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri)
    nesting female Black-chinned Humming...jpg
  • Spur-winged Plover / Masked Lapwing, Riverton, New Zealand
    Spur-winged Plover 03.jpg
  • Kaka, Stewart Island, New Zealand
    Kaka 04.jpg
  • Stewart Island Weka, Ulva Island, New Zealand
    Weka 02.jpg
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