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alastairfreemanתיאור
Feeding on sandy flat out from beach. Accompanied by entourage of scavengers mainly goatfish, juvenile snapper and juv. sanddaggers wrasse.
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gone_herpingתיאור
Found under a rock with another just like it, but I only collected this one.
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samuelamarisתיאור
Seen with @benackerley. Its back!
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william-harlandתיאור
I hope this is G. helmsi, as this is an insect I have been wanting to see for a while!
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lehakiתיאור
Feeling stoked with this silhouette pic! It almost looks like a dragon flying into the mountain
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jacqui-nzתיאור
Obs for the right ootheca (egg mass). The left one looks like a South African ootheca (Miomantis caffra)? Both on the underside of a magnolia leaf.
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oscarkokakoתיאור
This bird was first photographed and reported via the NZ Bird Identification Facebook group. Upon seeing this we made a visit to Waikanae Estuary and scanned the flock of White-fronted Terns several times before the bird flew in and landed amongst them around 11:45am. It then roosted for 45 minutes before leaving to feed in the channel with the majority of the tern flock.
Basic plumage marsh tern with extensive black headphone markings on head, darker grey upperparts than the similar White-winged black tern, along with a longer bill, darker legs, a grey rump, and grey shoulder tabs which are diagnostic for Black tern. This is likely the Eurasian subspecies Chlidonias niger niger owing to the pale underwings and relatively small shoulder tab markings. Would be the 1st record of this species for New Zealand if accepted.
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gone_herpingתיאור
Juvenile spotted skink SVL=42 mm, Total length = 99 mm, weight 1.8 g
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shoushou_1221תיאור
First time to find velvet worm in my life.
The first photo is a homage to my friend @invertebratist.
Native beech forest in South Canterbury. Under a rotten log beside to walking track.
Probably this is 'Dunedin' peripatus.
15 pairs legs and brown based colors.
This is one of big happen in my life. I am very glad to found this crazy cool creature.
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tonyjewellתיאור
Not sure what to make of this one, found in a very isolated little area of creviced schist rock in the Waitaki Valley, between 20-30 km inland and only about 1 km south of the Waitaki River. Its size (SVL around 55-60 mm) would suggest an Alps (a number of adults including gravid females seen, confirming they are small), but its deep yellow eyes, toe shape and general colour pattern are quite unlike the Alps' among greywacke further west in the same valley, and I don't know of any alps anywhere having deep yellow eyes. Korero geckos are off to the south in the Kakanui Mts system, but although small for their species there they are still distinctly bigger then these ones and with rather different patterning. If I had to guess I'd probably go with aberrant Southern Alps gecko, maybe with some korero genetic influence? Superficially they're a little like the schist gecko, but surely much too isolated to be a population of them.
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לבנין הצנון (Pieris rapae)מתצפת.ת
bipbarrattתיאור
Cabbage white butterfly larva with parasitoids ( Apanteles glomerata) larvae emerging
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tonyjewellתיאור
Greywacke gecko, W. 'Northern Southern Alps'. Two specimens figured. Among river terrace stones in kanuka/matagouri shrubland with open mossy/stony ground.
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לווייתן מינקי דרומי (Balaenoptera bonaerensis)מתצפת.ת
clintonתיאור
Successfully re-floated on the full tide.
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samuelamarisתיאור
Continuing vagrant for this location
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possumsendתיאור
Rock tor system. A genuine "wild" animal. Not in a fenced reserve or a trapped area. Eastern form.
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oscarkokakoמקום
The OPERA - Otago Peninsula Eco Restoration Alliance 45 Pakihau Road, Portobello, Harington Point 9077, New Zealand (Google, OSM)תיאור
First found on Saint Clair beach on 15th January and uplifted to the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital for quarantine and health checks. Released privately on 1st February, remained for 24 hours and observed on a tour with the OPERA.
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benackerleyתיאור
Thanks so much to @samuelamaris for letting me use his camera for a record shot! (Dont have a camera atm)
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william-harlandתיאור
Even Riflemen sometimes need a contemplative gaze into the mirror!
