User:Tony Wills/Gallery

Birds

Bellbirds

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  Fluffed up Bellbird at bird feeder entrance

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  Feeding from 'nectar' feeder designed to feed Kaka
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  Drip
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  Suction

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  Fitting transmitter to a Bellbird
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  Bellbird preening, trying to dislodge unwanted transmitter and aerial
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  Size comparison
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  Male Bellbird
• Series single notes
• Single longer call
• Single longer call with bit added
• Single note
• cacophony

Ducks

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  New Zealand Scaup
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Fantails

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Hihi (Notiomystis cincta)

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  Female Hihi or Stitchbird

Kaka

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  Kaka foot
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  Kaka damage to trees from bark stripping
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  Kaka in flight
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  Kaka feeding on Huhu grub

Kaka digging out huhu grub

Kaka digging out huhu and eating it like an icecream

Closeup of kaka eating huhu grub

• Tui chasing Kaka from feeder

Kereru

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  Pigeon droppings after feeding on native passion fruit

Kiwi

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  Kiwi burrow

NZ Falcon

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  flexing tail, about to take off
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  in flight through forest

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  flight frame 1
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  flight frame 3

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  dive frame 1
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  dive frame 2
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  dive frame 3

Pukeko

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  Panning photo of Pukeko flying

Robins

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  NZ North Island Robin, (Petroica australis longipes)
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  NZ North Island Robin
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  NZ North Island Robin, standing on pack
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  NZ North Island Robin, juvenile begging
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  NZ North Island Robin, preening
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  NZ North Island Robin, showing white belly
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  NZ North Island Robin

Saddlebacks

• Saddleback bathing
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  nesting box

Silvereyes

• Silvereye feeding on aphids

Tui

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  Declaring ownership of this flax bush
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  foot pads, toe and claw
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  brush tongue
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  white neck curl feathers
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  foot and claws
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  flight pattern
• Tui chasing Kaka from feeder

Whiteheads

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  Preened
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  Singing
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Sea birds

Red-billed gulls (Larus scopulinus)

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  Watching with its beady eye
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  Juvenile
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  Juvenile
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  Adult
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  Adult
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  Reading the signs
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  Waiting for dinner
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  With dragging wing
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  Feeding in shallows
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  Bathing
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  Spitting out not so tasty morsel
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  Juvenile checking out an empty shell
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  Comparison of adult and juvenile plumage
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  Sneaking past
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  Sharing dinner
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  Eating berries
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Black-backed gulls (Larus dominicanus)

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  Pounding the water for take-off
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  Co-operating with photographer
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  Juvenile - a drab bird on a drab day on a drab beach
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  Posing
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  Another take-off
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  What goes up ...
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  Diving for cushion star starfish

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  Oyster catcher
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  Oyster catcher backward glance
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  Black shag (cormorant)
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  Little pied shag after fishing foray, dried out and preened
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  Pied shag
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Introduced birds

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  Farmed ostrich (Struthio camelus) eyeing the fence
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  Inside the wire with an ostrich
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  Male blackbird (Turdus merula)
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  Male blackbird
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  Female blackbird
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  Dead baby bird, probably a Blackbird (Turdus merula)
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  Blackbird egg
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  Blackbird nest
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  Blackbird fledgling
• Male blackbird singing
• Male blackbird singing
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  Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos)
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  Male chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
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  Californian Quail (Callipepla californica)
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  Californian Quail (Callipepla californica)
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  Welcome swallow mud nest
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  Welcome swallow discarded egg shell
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• Male ducks do quack

Bird tracking

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Invertabrates

Peripatus

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Harvestmen and mites

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  Erythraeidae parasitic larva on Harvestman's leg
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  Adult Erythraeidae, probably Abrolophus sp.
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  Gorse spider mite

Spiders, wasps and bees

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  Spider hunting wasp with victim (Family: Pompilidae)
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  Pompilidae and paralysed spider
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  Orange Ichneumonid wasp
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  Spider hunting wasp with victim (Family: Pompilidae)
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  Spider hunting wasp
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  Spider hunting wasp
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  Closeup of dead Black tunnel web spider (Porrhothele antipodiana)
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  Nursery web spider (Dolomedes minor)
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  Nursery web spider with nursery (Dolomedes minor)
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  With nursery on gorse bush at night
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  Damaged nursery
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  Nursery closeup
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  Spider mite web on gorse bush
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  Spider mites on gorse bush
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  Bumblebee
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  Bumblebee
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  Bumblebee
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  Bumblebee stealing from blackberry blossom
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  Hypoblemum albovittatum
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Butterflies and Moths

• NZ Red Admiral butterfly (Vanessa gonerilla gonerilla)
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  head detail
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  camouflaged underside of wings
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  the fly hath flies
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  compare upper and lower wings
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• NZ Yellow Admiral (Vanesa itea)
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  Yellow Admiral, thumbnail version
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  Closeup
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  Drone fly and Yellow Admiral feeding on Hebe
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  Underwing detail
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• NZ Copper Butterfly
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  Glade copper, female
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  Glade copper, female (underwing detail)
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  Common copper, female (top), male (bottom)
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  Common copper, female
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  Common copper, female (underwing detail)
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  Common copper, male
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• Magpie moth (Nyctemera annulata)
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  front view
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  front view
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  at rest
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  top view
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  feeding
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  head
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  side view
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  underside and feet
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  "in one end, out ..."
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  rear close-up
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  Magpie moth caterpillar on right
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  Eggs
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  Cocoon

• Cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae)
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  Cinnabar caterpillar on left
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  Cinnabar caterpillar
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• Puriri moth (Hepialus virescens)
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  side view
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  front view
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• Other moths
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  White plume moth
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Grasshoppers

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  Camouflaged NZ grasshopper (Phaulacridium marginale)
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  Mating NZ grasshoppers (Phaulacridium marginale)

Weta

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  Female tree weta (Hemideina crassidens)
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  Male tree weta (Hemideina crassidens)
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  Defensive male tree weta (Hemideina crassidens)
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  Illustration showing length of Tree Weta antenna compared to body length.

Flys

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  Unknown small fly on Senecio minimus
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  Female Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
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  Female Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
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  Female Drone Fly (Eristalis tenax)
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  Robber/Assasin fly feeding on another fly in the dark
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  Fly defecating on flower

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Beetles

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  1cm Scale
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  Redwinged Lycid Beetle (Porrostoma ?)
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  Mating
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  Mating
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Huhu

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  Huhu beetle (Prionoplus reticularis)
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  underside
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Booklice

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  head closeup
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  head closeup underside
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  head side closeup
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  side view
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  underside
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  top view
• animated view
• animated view of head
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  head closeup

Other insects

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  Large cicada (Amphipsalta zelandica)
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Other Arthropods

• Springtails
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  Springtail side view, microscopic focus stack
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  Springtail underside, microscopic focus stack

• Misc
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Reptiles

• Wellington Green Gecko
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  Wellington Green Gecko
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  Wellington Green Gecko
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  Wellington Green Gecko
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  Wellington Green Gecko

• Forest Gecko
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• Skinks
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Fish etc

• Shell Fish
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• Tube worms
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Jelly Fish

• Turritopsis rubra
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Sea Anemones

• Wandering Sea Anemone
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• Diadumene
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• Corynactis_australis
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• Actinia tenebrosa
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• Epiactis thompsoni
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Other Fish

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Mammals

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  Mouse stealing food from classic mouse trap
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  Young hedgehog on fence line track
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  Diseased hedgehog
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  Trapped and killed hedgehog
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  Goat on fence line track
• Stoat excluded by fence

Plants

Resin on tree stumps

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  Beads of resin on Pinus Radiata tree stump
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  Bubbles of resin on Pinus Radiata tree stump
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  Bubbles of resin on Pinus Radiata tree stump
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  Bubbles of resin on Pinus Radiata tree stump
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  Bead of resin on Pinus Radiata tree stump

Flowers

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  Dandelion flower in mid winter, in full sun, Wellington, NZ
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  Dandelion flower in mid winter, in shade, Wellington, NZ
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  Sow thistle seed head
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  Sow thistle flower
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  Sow-thistle flower
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  Straw flower, or Ever Lasting Daisy (Helichrysum bracteatum), growing in wild - garden escapee, Wellington, NZ
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  Daisy (Bellis perennis)
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  Senecio glastifolius
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  Red clover (Trifolium pratense) flower
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  Introduced broom (Cytisus scoparius) flower
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  White daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
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  White daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
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  White daisy after pollination (Leucanthemum vulgare)
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  Blackberry flower (Rubus fruticosus)
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  Pink Blackberry flower (Rubus fruticosus)
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  Birdsfoot trefoil flower (Lotus corniculatus)
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  Ragwort flowers (Senecio jacobaea)

Other plants

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  Pinus Radiata detail
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  Cabbage trees (Cordyline australis)
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  Senecio glastifolius
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  Gorse colonising track edges
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  Gorse colonising after fire
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  Gorse on farmland
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  Single gorse bush
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Sea weeds

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Fungi

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  Mature Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) Mushroom.
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  Mature Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) Mushroom.
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  Young Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) Mushroom.
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  Large Amanita muscaria, 9cm at this stage, 19cm when mature.
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  Amanita muscaria
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  Red coral fungus
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  Mature Gymnopilus junonius
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  Gymnopilus junonius
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  Deconica subviscida
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  Mycena rubroglobulosa
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  Mycena sp.
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  Pycnoporus coccineus
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  Leratiomyces erythrocephalus
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  Podoscypha petalodes
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  Sticky bun mushroom spore pattern
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• A puffballs progress
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  Puffball
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  Puffball starting to split
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  Puffball after expelling spores

Slime Molds

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  Arcyria nutans sporangia

Built Structures

NZHPT Category I

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  Daisy hill farmhouse
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  Old bank arcade (BNZ building)
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  MLC building
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  T&G mutal life building
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  St Gerard's Church and Monastery

Educational

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  Samuel marsden school
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  Northland school
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  Correspondence school
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  Queen margaret college
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  Wellington girls school
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  Thorndon school
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Fort ballance

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Futuna Chapel

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  Futuna Chapel, Karori, Wellington, NZ, viewed from the North West
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  Roof glass detail

On the hills

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  Hawkins Hill radar station, Wellington, NZ
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  Wind turbine and radio mast. Wellington, NZ
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  Wind turbine. Wellington, NZ
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  Wind turbine after sunset 31 Dec 2007. Wellington, NZ
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  Wind turbine at sunset. Wellington, NZ

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  Microwave tower silhouetted against sunset, Wrights Hill, Wellington NZ
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  Sunrise
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  Microwave tower, Wrights Hill,
  Wellington NZ
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  Radio and microwave aerials on Wrights Hill,
  Wellington, NZ
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  Microwave tower, Wrights Hill,
  Wellington NZ

Other built stuff

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  Bucket fountain
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  French embassy
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  Ambulance base
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  Whakatane
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  Zephyr kinetic sculpture
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  Mahanga Bay Aquaculture Facility
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  Run down house, Wellington
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  Dappled sign

Other

Land/sea scapes

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  Poverty bay
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  Wellington harbour
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Vehiles/Transport

• RSS Stalwart leaving Wellington harbour
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  Arahura
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  WCC big red
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  MS Stena Alegra
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  Car Wreck in Karori Wildlife Sanctuary

Karori Wildlife Sanctuary

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  Original Karori Wildlife Sanctuary Entrance
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  KWS fence mesh scale
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  A stretch of fence
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  Location as seen from North
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  From north zoom view
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  Exposed fence footer
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  Top cap
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  Fence defect
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  Trial mouse exclusion skirt
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  Goat on fence line track
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  Upper dam and part of upper lake
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  Upper dam
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  Change in reservoir level
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  Karori reservoir in 2012
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  Karori reservoir in 1988
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  Regenerating forest claims car wreck

Eclipse

An event not to be missed, pity I didn't have suitable equipment ;-)

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People

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  Woz and Hertzfeld
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  Magpie defence

Camera

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  Olympus C-750 'self portrait'
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  Olympus C-750 'self portrait' - front right showing flash
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  Olympus C-750 'self portrait' - front right
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  Olympus C-750 'self portrait' - front left
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  Olympus C-750 'self portrait' - back
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  Closest focus achievable with Olympus C-750

Illustrations

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  Categorized file to 11 July 2011
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  Categorized files to 7 August 2011

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