Botanical Garden 101

The Aviary in Dunedin's Botanical Garden

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November 13th 2011
Finally I have had the time to take some amazing pictures of the birds in the Botanical Garden's Aviary. Over the course of the last few months, I had had many visits to the birds. There were two parrots that I especially liked to visit as they spoke German and were very talkative. Additionally, there is this one bird who looked like he was born from a rainbow with a full range of colourful feathe ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Dunedin

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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