Bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica)

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May 17th 2013
I’m not having much luck with the weather on the New Zealand parts of this trip! Almost every day seems to be raining, with today not an exception. I caught the bus out to the Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant where lots of shorebirds gather. Birders like to gather at sewage plants too. Funny that. I didn’t know the tide times so I just went out first thing in the morning and hoped for the be ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more

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