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  • Guess which bird I am?  New Zealanders, you better know this one!  A silhouette of a kiwi and egg.
    Kiwi, Haast Brown_5175.jpg
  • Variable Oystercatcher, egg
    Variable Oystercatcher eggs 25_0433.jpg
  • A freshly hatched Black-billed Gull chick at its nest, with surrounding fragments of cracked egg.
    Black-billed Gull 24_4454.jpg
  • A variable oystercatcher guards its eggs nestled in the coastal grass.  South Island, New Zealand
    Variable Oystercatcher and eggs 33_6...jpg
  • A variable oystercatcher and its eggs nestled amongst dry kelp on the beach, Catlins, South Island, New Zealand
    Variable Oystercatcher 20_63A4486.jpg
  • Variable Oystercatcher eggs hidden amongst dry kelp along the beach, Catlins, South Island, New Zealand
    Variable Oystercatcher eggs 24_63A42...jpg
  • Black Swan, nest and eggs, New Zealand
    Black Swan 03_8772.jpg
  • A variable oystercatcher and its eggs nestled amongst dry kelp on the beach, Catlins, South Island, New Zealand
    Variable Oystercatcher 23_63A4632.jpg
  • A variable oystercatcher and its eggs nestled amongst dry kelp on the beach, Catlins, South Island, New Zealand
    Variable Oystercatcher 22_63A4622.jpg
  • A variable oystercatcher sitting on its eggs, along the beach, Catlins, South Island, New Zealand
    Variable Oystercatcher 19_63A4258.jpg
  • Toulouse Goose sitting on eggs at nest, Southland, New Zealand
    Toulouse Goose 07_2113.jpg
  • Toulouse Goose sitting on eggs at nest, Southland, New Zealand
    Toulouse Goose 06_2107.jpg
  • A variable oystercatcher guards its eggs nestled in the coastal grass.
    Variable Oystercatcher and eggs 34_6...jpg
  • A variable oystercatcher and its eggs nestled amongst dry kelp on the beach, Catlins, South Island, New Zealand
    Variable Oystercatcher 21_63A4508.jpg
  • Toulouse Goose sitting on eggs at nest, Southland, New Zealand
    Toulouse Goose 08_2137.jpg
  • Nest eggs of an endangered Black-billed Gull, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 23_4444.jpg
  • Long pink legs of the Black-necked stork stand guard at the nest of eggs.  The Black-necked stork is the only stork in Australia.
    Black-necked Stork 01_6589.jpg
  • Long pink legs of the Black-necked stork stand guard at the nest of eggs.  The Black-necked stork is the only stork in Australia.
    Black-necked Stork 03_6018.jpg
  • Long pink legs of the Black-necked stork stand guard at the nest of eggs.  The Black-necked stork is the only stork in Australia.
    Black-necked Stork 05_6016.jpg
  • Long pink legs of the Black-necked stork stand guard at the nest of eggs.  The Black-necked stork is the only stork in Australia.
    Black-necked Stork 04_6013.jpg
  • Long pink legs of the Black-necked stork stand guard at the nest of eggs.  The Black-necked stork is the only stork in Australia.
    Black-necked Stork 02_5928.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick,  sitting at nest, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 21_4426.jpg
  • Happy birthday little guy!  This endangered Black-billed chick hasn't even fully hatched.  Maybe it's more comfortable in the cozy shell?  Southland, New Zealand.
    Black-billed Gull 20_4407.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick, newborn, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 11_4235.jpg
  • Blackbird, nest, New Zealand
    Song Thrush, nest_3547.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick, newborn, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 16_4359.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick, newborn, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 55_4319.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick, newborn, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 13_4280.jpg
  • Black Swan, nesting season, New Zealand
    Black Swan 01_8778.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick,  sitting at nest, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 22_4428.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick, newborn, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 19_4404.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick, newborn, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 18_4374.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick, newborn, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 15_4326.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick, newborn, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 14_4320.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick, newborn, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 12_4252.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick, newborn, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 10_4227.jpg
  • Black Swan, nesting season, New Zealand
    Black Swan 02_8768.jpg
  • Endangered Black-billed Gull chick, newborn, New Zealand
    Black-billed Gull 17_4370.jpg
  • blackbird eggs in nest
    _H7C9275.jpg
  • Over 1200 pairs of Australasian Gannets nest at Muriwai each summer, typically between August and March.  A single blue egg is laid with an incubation time of approximately 44 days.  The parents take turns in incubating the egg, similar to that of penguins.  At 15 weeks the chicks take off on their maiden flight of 2000 kilometers to Australia and they don't return for 2 to 6 years.
    Breeding Colony of the Australasian ...jpg
  • Although the endemic Antipodes Island Parakeet usually feeds on grass and tussock, it will occasionally scavenge on carcasses and eggs of penguins and petrels!
    Antipodes Island Parakeet 02_H7C0826.jpg
  • female Costa's hummingbird sitting on one-day old nest and eggs
    Costa's Hummingbird 02_1465.jpg
  • Although the endemic Antipodes Island Parakeet usually feeds on grass and tussock, it will occasionally scavenge on carcasses and eggs of penguins and petrels!
    Antipodes Island Parakeet 01_H7C0819.jpg
  • NZ Dotterel nests are mere scrapings in the sand, placing their eggs and chicks at much vulnerability to storms, predation, off-road vehicles, and careless feet.  As depicted in this image, the nest is commonly among shells and driftwood just above the high tide mark, with two to three eggs simply laid in a scrape in the sand.
    New Zealand Dotterel 20_H7C7807.jpg
  • female Costa's hummingbird sitting on one-day old nest and eggs
    Costa's Hummingbird 01_1453.jpg
  • female Costa's hummingbird sitting on one-day old nest and eggs
    Costa's Hummingbird 04_1031.jpg
  • female Costa's hummingbird sitting on one-day old nest and eggs
    Costa's Hummingbird 03_0974.jpg
  • Most parrots including the rainbow lorikeet, breed in tree cavities, often in dead trees or branches, and often high off the ground.  Nests are lined with bark, leaves, and feathers, and keep eggs and chicks safe from terrestrial predators.
    Rainbow Lorikeet in Tree Cavity 01_3...jpg
  • If the eggs of the New Zealand Dotterel are lost to predators, or to natural factors such as storms or big tides, the birds will re-nest up to four times in one season.
    New Zealand Dotterel 22_H7C7894.jpg
  • female Costa's hummingbird sitting on one-day old nest and eggs
    Costa's Hummingbird 05_1037.jpg
  • Galah, Kangaroo Island, Australia.<br />
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A pair of wild galahs poking their heads out of their home in a hollowed tree branch.  Galahs often tear away the bark around the entrance to their nesting hollows, to impede the climbing ability of monitor lizards, which devour bird eggs.  The definition of "galah" is a 'fool, silly person.'  Appropriately named after the bird of the same name because of its antics and the noise it makes.  For example, galahs have been observed playing in whirlwinds.  They deliberately let themselves be sucked up into the wind tunnel and spiral upwards, only to repeat the process once they are blown out the top.
    Galah, Nesting 01_6997.jpg
  • The black-breasted buzzard takes a menacing stance to ward off threats.  This buzzard is a medium-sized bird of prey that eats rabbits, ground birds, lizards and carrion.  They glide at speed and snatch food from the ground, from trees, or in the air.  Interestingly, this buzzard will pick up and drop stones onto eggs in order to crack them open!  Its conservation status is listed as vulnerable.
    Black-breasted Buzzard 01_3954.jpg
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