Photo 1851353, no rights reserved, uploaded by Peter de Lange

Attribution By Peter de Lange
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Uploaded by pjd1 pjd1
Source iNaturalist NZ
Associated observations

Photos / Sounds

What

North Island Kākā (Nestor meridionalis ssp. septentrionalis)

Observer

pjd1

Date

September 8, 2013

Description

Bad photos - but then its not every day you see a kaka in your back yard in Auckland either. The images were hastily taken in poor light (dusk) before the bird flew away. A single bird, without bands, creating a racket in a thicket of planted kawakawa (Piper excelsum subsp. delangei) and kohekohe (Dysoxylum spectabile). Kaka are now seen reasonably commonly in the inner parts of Auckland, possibly stemming from overflow from such predator-free islands as Little Barrier.

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