Speaker: Vote Grey Warbler
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Can I put in a plug for the kaka?
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When I was at Brownies in the early '80s, the Brownie units were divided into smaller groups called sixes which were named after New Zealand native birds - Pipits, Tomtits, Bellbirds and Grey Warblers. Though I was the captain of the Bellbirds, the grey warbler bird has always held a special place in my heart, so it gets my vote.
I see on the Forest and Bird voting guide that the Rachel Hunter bird has been banned because it "does not meet the official definition of New Zealand bird" (lolz!!!!) but the Robin is eligible.
Tweet.
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Andrew,
SNAP!
You beat me to that one. Was followed by a couple of Kaka in the Kaimanawas once, had a soft spot for them ever since.
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typical bloke, a random bird follows you about for a bit and you form an irrational attachment...
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Andrew - Bloody Kaka attacked me when I was cycling from the Fox to Gillespies Beach. Flying possums in my book.
Yeah I love the Kereru - really takes on (if I may) Kiwi Kulture - gets pissed when it can - flys around for fun gliding & swooping - and they get fat. Gotta love the Kereru -
The Kaka needs a vote or two. Every one's always "Kea this" and "Kea that". They think they're so smart just because they can dismantle a car in 5 seconds.
But, this year I think I shall be voting for the Weka.
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3410,
I'll not vote for the Weka. One of 'em stole a Shrewsbury biscuit right off my knee once.
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Kelburn's full of kaka at the moment, they're commuting from the sanctuary to the Bot gardens to feed. The tui are very upset.
They put on a good show for the tourists at the top of the cable car.
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Loving the Mt Bruce birdcall site Graham. I think the kakapo just blew my woofer
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Sounds painful.
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I'm not so keen on the grey warbler, but I would vote for the riroriro. There's one singing his little heart out right outside my back door now.
The riroriro here have a slightly different tune from the riroriro around my parents' place in Taranaki. Regional accents?
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Loving the Mt Bruce birdcall site Graham. I think the kakapo just blew my woofer
It's awesome. It made the windows in my office buzz, and I didn't even have the speakers up loud.
Someone so has to use that on a drum and bass record.
It's here if anyone else wants a buzz.
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The riroriro here have a slightly different tune from the riroriro around my parents' place in Taranaki. Regional accents?
It's the classic urban/rural divide. The ones at your parents place prolly vote national, the Wellington one is Labour or Green. John Campbell never stops going on about it every election night.
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The Riroriro IS the Grey Warbler, or are you making a point about the lack of Maori names in my missal? Regional accents? Sure do. In fact no 2 Grey Warblers sound exactly the same, yet the theme is always consistent. Amazing really.
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By the way...
Perhaps one of Jesus Christ's biographer's bigger marnuses?
Matthew 6:26
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.Actually, JC, or Matthew, if you watched them for more than five minutes you'd find they work fucking hard!
Gratitude goes to CK Stead for pointing this out.
Go the Warbler!
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I wasn't trying to make a point at all - I suppose I should hve put one of those emoticon thingmies there.
Though I do prefer the Maori name, because it sounds like the grey warblers' songs. And as a matter of practice, I use the Maori names. My children talk about piwakawaka, tui, kotare and ruru, all of which we see and hear in abundance, thanks to the Karori Sanctuary.
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Genius idea. I shall vote riroriro/grey warbler forthwith. It's hardly a showboat, but a shy and retiring wee grafter often imposed upon by bludgers. [Calls to mind the faulty self-image of the commenters of A Certain Other Prominent Blog, doesn't it, although in this case the grey warbler really does fit the bill.]
I've been trying to take photos of the little blighters for a while now, and it's damned hard. Difficult enough to see, let alone get the camera on them in time when you do.
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The riroriro here have a slightly different tune from the riroriro around my parents' place in Taranaki. Regional accents?
A study in Britain found that many birds do actually have regional dialects. (no links because I'm being lazy)
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I've done it. Got some nesting hereabouts and we love listening to them.
Got woodpigeons too, but the tui patrols drive them off our berry trees. Tui are the gangland thugs of the bird world, and it's ALL their patch, according to them.
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Photographing GWs is unsurprisingly a very hard thing to do well. This is an outstanding effort from Dave Curtis showing the rudimentary fantail.
Geoff Moon is of course the Hall Of Famer with a box brownie. He's still active at 96! -
Always thought the kea were real characters: had two very cheeky ones wake myself and three others sleeping under a fly near Salisbury Hut by swooping down and flying through the fly.
They're funny - until its your tramping sock they nick.
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Great news for the GW campaign, but no complacency please. This result as of lunchtime today may just fire the blackfronted Brethren back into action again, along with others. Not many votes all in all though is it. Disappointing. Oh well. I'm never happy am I.. ho ho ho.
1.Grey warbler (74 votes)
2.Kereru (49)
3.Black-fronted tern (45)
4.Tui (44)
5.Kakapo (37)
6.Fantail (26)
7=.Pukeko, kiwi (22)
9=, Kea, bellbird, morepork (20) -
1.Grey warbler (74 votes)
This is good news. I'm going to get my internet bitches on to this to give G-Wizzo a few more votes.
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Tui are the gangland thugs of the bird world, and it's ALL their patch, according to them.
Apparently they will drive off magpies. But as mentioned earlier, kaka are raiding the Bot gardens at present, the tui amass in the desired trees & try to see them off.
It can be pandemonium up there some days. The kaka don't seem to care much though.
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The pukeko are doing disturbingly well.
Grew up in an area with a lot of them - on the edge of the swamplands near the mouth of the Waikato - and I can't stand them.
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