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  • A beautiful reflection of flax, with its rigid leaves fanning out.  Flax are known as harakeke by the Maori, which use the leaves to weave baskets.
    Flax Reflection 01_H7C1806.jpg
  • Flax, New Zealand
    Flax 01_5030.jpg
  • Tui on flax in the spring, New Zealand
    Tui on Flax 90_63A0749.jpg
  • Forest and flax reflecting in the still waters of Lake Wilkie, Catlins, New Zealand
    Flax and Forest 01_H7C1875.jpg
  • Flax, New Zealand
    Flax 10_7966.jpg
  • Flax at beach, Kaikoura, New Zealand
    Flax at beach, Kaikoura_9932.jpg
  • Riverton, flax at beach, New Zealand
    Riverton, flax_6659.jpg
  • Forest and flax reflecting in the still waters of Lake Wilkie, Catlins, New Zealand
    Flax and Forest 02_H7C1876.jpg
  • Flax at Coromandel, New Zealand
    Flax at Coromandel_5149.jpg
  • The historic Waipapa Point Lighthouse behind flowering flax, Catlins, New Zealand
    Waipapa Point Lighthouse and flax_63...jpg
  • Cabbage Trees and Flax in season, New Zealand
    Cabbage Trees and Flax_5214.jpg
  • Flax at sunset, New Zealand
    Flax at Sunset_5041.jpg
  • A flax in Kaikoura, with the Seaward Range in the distance, New Zealand.
    Kaikoura and Flax_9094.jpg
  • Kakariki began eating flax on TIritiri Matangi in the late 1990s, reducing flax-flower stems down to only two by 2000!  When kakriki numbers declined significantly in the winter of 2001, flax flowering improved, much to the benefit of the three nectar-eating species: tui, bellbird, and stitchbird.
    Red-crowned Parakeet 16_0002.jpg
  • Tui and flax, New Zealand
    Tui 05.jpg
  • Tui on flax
    Tui 75_H7C0860.jpg
  • During breeding season, tui may travel more than 10 kilometres a day to find nectar and honeydew from good sources, such as kowhai, rata, and pohutukawa.  Here, a tui takes a break from feeding on flax, on Waiheke Island, New Zealand.
    Tui 70_H7C7309.jpg
  • Red Poll on flax, Southland, New Zealand
    Red Poll 01_H7C3429.jpg
  • Freshly flowering flax brings honeyeaters such as the bellbird out of the forest and into the open.  Southland, New Zealand.
    Bellbird 36_H7C3121.jpg
  • Bellbirds on a dried flax, Southland, New Zealand
    Bellbird 37_H7C3517.jpg
  • Tui on flax, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
    Tui 71_H7C7318.jpg
  • Riverton, flax at beach, New Zealand
    Riverton, beach_6660.jpg
  • Tui feeding on nectar of flax
    Tui 04.jpg
  • Tui on flax, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
    Tui 72_H7C7324.jpg
  • Tui feeding on nectar of flax
    Tui 02.jpg
  • Yellow-eyed penguin, adult and nest at a nest in the flax, Catlins, New Zealand
    Yellow-eyed Penguin 116_2024.jpg
  • Tui capped with orange flax pollen, New Zealand
    Tui 01.jpg
  • The whitehead is most commonly heard chattering away with squeaks and buzzes within its flock in the forest canopy.  Some calls even sound like that of the canary, giving it its alternative name of the 'bush canary'.<br />
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Here, a whitehead rests on a dried flax-flower stem on Tiritiri Matangi, New Zealand.
    Whitehead 01_H7C0046.jpg
  • New Zealand is poorly represented having just 2 species of kingfisher.  One is the widespread and well-known Sacred Kingfisher and the other the introduced Laughing Kookaburra.
    Sacred Kingfisher 10_7075.jpg
  • Welcome Swallow, Waituna Wetlands, New Zealand
    Welcome Swallow 06_5383.jpg
  • Sacred Kingfisher, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
    Sacred Kingfisher 09_7035.jpg
  • Sacred Kingfisher, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
    Sacred Kingfisher 07_H7C7578.jpg
  • Sacred Kingfisher, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
    Sacred Kingfisher 12_H7C7198.jpg
  • Sacred Kingfisher, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
    Sacred Kingfisher 11_H7C7187.jpg
  • Tui, Riverton, New Zealand
    Tui 07.jpg
  • Sacred Kingfisher, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
    Sacred Kingfisher 08_H7C7580.jpg
  • Sacred Kingfisher, Waiheke Island, New Zealand
    Sacred Kingfisher 06_H7C7495.jpg
  • This Sacred Kingfisher perches comfortably on a tree branch shaped peculiarly like a swing, on Waiheke Island, New Zealand.
    Sacred Kingfisher 05_H7C6949.jpg
  • Welcome Swallow, Waituna Wetlands, New Zealand
    Welcome Swallow 07_5392.jpg
  • Mason Bay, Stewart Island, New Zealand
    Mason Bay 02_9564.jpg
  • South Island Tomtit, New Zealand
    South Island Tomtit 04.jpg
  • Sacred Kingfisher, Sandy Point Reserve, New Zealand
    Sacred Kingfisher 01.jpg
  • South Island Tomtit, New Zealand
    South Island Tomtit 03.jpg
  • Tui at Riverton, New Zealand
    Tui 06.jpg
  • Riverton coast, Southland, New Zealand
    Riverton, New Zealand.jpg
  • Saddleback are quite vulnerable to predation by mammals as it busies itself on the forest floor.  However, being now established on 11 offshore islands, the saddleback is no longer regarded as endangered.  This saddleback hides in at the base of a large flax.
    Saddleback 08_H7C9970.jpg
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