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Found a little black shag with a fully mature dabchick halfway down its throat out on Lake Rotoiti in the Rotorua lakes. The Dabchick was warm and bleeding from wounds to the side of its head. The shag dropped the dabchick and flew off.
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A pair of Dabchick. Have also been observed successfully fledgling chicks here.
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A single dabchick regularly seen on the pond.
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A pair that successfully breed on this coastal landlocked pond.
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A pair with three large chicks. One was larger and may have been adopted.
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A single bird seen on this large irrigation pond.
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A pair regularly breed here with three clutches in one good season. We have good predator control in place.
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Dabchicks moved into this new pond as it was filling and remain here now.
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Two dabchicks on this coastal lake.
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Fourteen dabchicks on the lake in a mob.
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Three dabchicks on the oxbow pond.
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There was some kind of short interaction between these two, but I have no idea what it was about!
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There was some kind of short interaction between these two, but I have no idea what it was about!
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There was some kind of short interaction between these two, but I have no idea what it was about!
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There was some kind of short interaction between these two, but I have no idea what it was about!
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Four or five birds seen on a farm pond in the eastern Wairarapa. Hard to get a firm estimate of the exact number as the birds keep diving perhaps as an avoidance measure. Other birds on and around the pond include grey teal, mallard, pukeko and white faced heron
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This pair were just offshore in the Lake Wairarapa Domain
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Observed at the Timaru Stream mouth just down stream of the foot bridge.
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Observed at the Timaru Stream mouth just down stream of the foot bridge.
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Observed at the Timaru Stream mouth just down stream of the foot bridge.
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