Braided River Bird Monitoring

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Braided rivers are a common in Alaska, Canada, New Zealand’s South Island, and the Himalayas, which all contain young, rapidly eroding mountains. They are a unique environment inhabited by equally unique birds. They simply cannot contain a river in a straight line. In floods especially they carry sediment, and in places where the flow slows …

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Native Birds of New Zealand

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 05:08:00 +0000

Takahē or notornis – a bird of the rail family, indigenous to New Zealand. Thought to be extinct, due to hunting by Māori. It was not named or described by Europeans until 1847, and then only from fossil bones. It was then rediscovered by Dr G. Orbell in 1948. In the Murchison Mountains, Fiordland National …

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Braided River Bird Monitoring

Native Birds of New Zealand