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Sea Potato (Echinocardium cordatum)Observer
seabourneDescription
Wash up on Omapere beach. Soft sediment burrower. Test shown here without its spines. Widespread species of heart urchin.
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Observer
seabourneDescription
Out hunting at night. At edge of native bush. Not sure if it’s P. suteri?
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Smooth Stick Insect (Clitarchus hookeri)Observer
seabourneDescription
Mating New Zealand stick insects, here a green female with two smaller brownish males, well camouflaged on a branch of a Casurina tree.
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European Woolcarder Bee (Anthidium manicatum)Observer
seabourneDescription
Photo is of a male, body length 15 mm. Observed over 2019-2020 summer, mainly hovering around flowering lemon balm (Melissa spp.). Also observed female scraping hairs off underside of grapevine leaves.
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Bryozoans (Phylum Bryozoa)Observer
seabourneDescription
Sevaeral species of Cheilostome bryozoans and serpulid worm tubes encrusting a bivalve shell. Washed up at tide line.
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North Island Kākā (Nestor meridionalis ssp. septentrionalis)Observer
seabourneDescription
2 sightings this month are the first time we have seen (and heard) kaka in this area!
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New Zealand Eagle Ray (Myliobatis tenuicaudatus)Observer
seabourneDescription
left behind at low tide and discovered by our dogs! Plenty of feeding traces (depressions) nearby.
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Bryozoans (Phylum Bryozoa)Observer
seabourneDescription
Cheilostome bryozoan colony encrusting a fragment of mussel shell, with serpulid wormtubes and algal holdfast etc.
