MORE MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND & VIEWS FROM THE MUSEUM, WELLINGTON, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND

MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND, WELLINGTON, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND

OUR BIRDING GUIDES & BUS DRIVER, MUSEUM OF NEW ZEALAND, WELLINGTON, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND

   These are photos of our Road Scholar birding guides and our bus driver after we were let off at the Museum of New Zealand or Te Papa Tangarewa.  In the first photo from left to right, is our bus driver (he was also a good birder), Ian, and our birding guides, Marita and Warren Jowett.   The second photo is a closeup of Ian.

TREE FERNS, ZEELANDIA SANCTUARY, WELLINGTON, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND

NONBREEDING BROWN TEALS, ZEELANDIA SANCTUARY, WELLINGTON, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND

   These two ducks were both sleeping, so we could not see their bills.  However, we can still ID this duck as a nonbreeding Brown Teal by its conspicuous white eyering around a dark brown eye, all brown color, dark brown on head and upperparts and lighter brown on breast.

   The Brown Teal is endemic to New Zealand and is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 743. 

   

EUROPEAN BLACKBIRDS TAKING A BATH, ZEELANDIA SANCTUARY, WELLINGTON, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND

PARADISE SHELDUCKS, ZEELANDIA SANCTUARY, WELLINGTON, NORTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND

   The Paradise Shelduck in the first two photos is a female and in the last two photos a male.  We can ID the duck in the first two photos as a female Paradise Shelduck by its goose-like  appearance, white head and upper neck and a bright orange-chestnut body.

   We can ID the duck in the last two photos as a male Paradise Shelduck by its goose-like appearance, glossy black head and neck, finely barred grey body and orange-chestnut tertials.

   The Paradise Shelduck is endemic to New Zealand and is a new species to our Photographic Life List, which now stands at 742.