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For the last two weeks we have had two NZ Falcons flying over us and around Khandallah Park hunting. Today about 40+ Tui chased one of them into the gum tree out the back of our place where it stayed for about half an hour while being bombarded by them
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For the last two weeks we have had two NZ Falcons flying over us and around Khandallah Park hunting. Today about 40+ Tui chased one of them into the gum tree out the back of our place where it stayed for about half an hour while being bombarded by them
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For the last two weeks we have had two NZ Falcons flying over us and around Khandallah Park hunting. Today about 40+ Tui chased one of them into the gum tree out the back of our place where it stayed for about half an hour while being bombarded by them
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The nesting pair of karearea at Zealandia spent a lot of time hanging around the nest, quietly minding their own business. But if a lunch invitation appeared they were happy to take the time to drop in. This one had been quietly preening when it noticed something below, unfortunately I couldn't see all the way down (and didn't accelerate the camera down fast enough anyway). Max shutter speed is 5 frames per second so 0.2 secs between frames ... so you can estimate speed ... if only you knew the height (perhaps extrapolate from length of bird). But then its just gravity, I'm not sure what the terminal velocity is of a ball of feathers. (thanks to Steve Attwood for publicising their location that year :-)
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The nesting pair of karearea at Zealandia spent a lot of time hanging around the nest, quietly minding their own business. But if a lunch invitation appeared they were happy to take the time to drop in. This one had been quietly preening when it noticed something below, unfortunately I couldn't see all the way down (and didn't accelerate the camera down fast enough anyway). Max shutter speed is 5 frames per second so 0.2 secs between frames ... so you can estimate speed ... if only you knew the height (perhaps extrapolate from length of bird). But then its just gravity, I'm not sure what the terminal velocity is of a ball of feathers. (thanks to Steve Attwood for publicising their location that year :-)
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Tui up in the top right was one of around 6 that went and flanked the falcon. about 80 to 100 feet above our house.
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Flew in to have a go at my friends chickens
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Karearea flying overhead and calling near the top dam, Zealandia, Wellington, New Zealand. File has been processed to reduce background noise, which has introduced a few strange gurgling artifacts.
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In Mountain Beech forest on Mt Richardson Track.
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In Mountain Beech forest on Mt Richardson Track.
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Adult seen many times over two days in this region. Seemed to be hanging around this particular outcrop, perhaps a roost (nest, eerie, den, falcon-stead, whatever they're called :) ).
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Observed feeding on prey of birds and a small rabbit in a tree 100 metres north of our house over a five week period.
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A keen student in our biodiversity class, Tamsin Phillips, brought me photos of a falcon in a tree near her house on Robinsons Road. She'd also seen it in trees along Springs Road closer to Lincoln University. I've included her best photo (the second photo is a cropped version with some image enhancement). This observation was uploaded to our old NZBRN system in 2011 without the photo. It's much better with the photo.
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A keen student in our biodiversity class, Tamsin Phillips, brought me photos of a falcon in a tree near her house on Robinsons Road. She'd also seen it in trees along Springs Road closer to Lincoln University. I've included her best photo (the second photo is a cropped version with some image enhancement). This observation was uploaded to our old NZBRN system in 2011 without the photo. It's much better with the photo.
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Female Falcon sitting on large stump and then male flying by and landing near by.
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I noticed it swoop past our house and land in a conifer on the other side of our neighbours place. It sat there for about 5 minutes, making small plaintive calls and looking around. Managed to get a few photos. Then it flew off further south across our road toward a couple of tall trees and I briefly saw another similar sized bird swoop at it from those trees, so I think there may have been two of them!
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This bird appeared to have no leg bands and also seemed to have an injured left leg.
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This bird appeared to have no leg bands and also seemed to have an injured left leg.
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Often see these birds, only in the early morning or late evening (just saw one, not pictured here and it's 7:13pm) Easy to tell they are around because of the alarm call all of the local tui give at once as they cruise by
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Often see these birds, only in the early morning or late evening (just saw one, not pictured here and it's 7:13pm) Easy to tell they are around because of the alarm call all of the local tui give at once as they cruise by
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Often see these birds, only in the early morning or late evening (just saw one, not pictured here and it's 7:13pm) Easy to tell they are around because of the alarm call all of the local tui give at once as they cruise by