Thursday, January 8, 2009

Birds of New Zealand

New Zealand Kingfisher - Halycon vagans


Grey Kiwi - Apteryx oweni


Blue-Wattled Crow - (Glaucopis wilsoni) -- Orange-Wattled Crow (Glaucopis cinera)


Moho or Takahe - Notornis mantelli


Quail Hawk - Hieracidea novae-zelandiae


Black Fantail - Rhidura fuliginosa + Pied Fantail - Rhipidura plabellifera


Huia (m + f) Heteralocha acutirostris


New Zealand Pigeon - Carpophaga noveae


The Silver-Eye - Zosterops caerulescens + The Bell-Bird - Anthonis melanura (m + f)


The Stitch Bird - Pogonornis cinota


Wandering Albatross - Diomedea eluxans


Yellow-Head, White-Head (Clitonyx spp) + New Zealand Creeper (Certhiparus novae-zealandiae)


North Island + Black Woodhens (Ocydromus spp.)


Pied + Emperor Shags (Phalacrocorax spp.)


'A History of the Birds of New Zealand', 1888 by Sir Walter Lawry Buller is available from the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre at Victoria University of Wellington. Some of the images above were spot-cleaned and a few more examples were saved in this set (that's the majority from the publication). {The 2-volume series is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence}.

Homepage of NZTEC - "free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials, which offers an ever expanding, fully searchable, set of images and full-text books, manuscripts and journals [..] contains over 2,600 texts (around 65,000 pages)" [via Armchair Aquarium Annex]

UPDATE: Definitely see Bookn3rd's posts (one & two) for background.
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