Bastards, all.

You mean, "bustards".

I still voted for the kaka, btw. We wuz robbed.

I blame the ref, women teachers, soy milk,…

The leaning tower of Pisa is not necessarily symbolic of a middle-aged architects battle with impotence.

It's a tower leaning over a bit.

The Homer tunnell is not necessarily Otago making an arsehole of itself.

It's a tunnell.

Elect Grey…

Sure... just as soon as ballot papers can be submitted online. Until then, the effect of campaigning in online communities will be quite limited ('cos you won't get the samr kind of immediate response). I would also point out that the GW campaign…

One day there'll be a Speaker post. "Lolz!!!", it will read. "Vote for Labour!!!! i can haz 4th term!!!!!"

We will vote for Labour, but…

Surely Hill & Brown can't seriously be such avid bird-fanciers? (They're both married after all — ba-dumm!) So it must be code for something else ...

I'd advise everyone to stay indoors. Something is afoot, methinks.

I'm going to duct tape my windows just…

The mainstream media should ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for them, said Qantas Awards-winning blogger Russell Brown today.

"The Grey Warbler's astonishing surge to victory in the final days of the 2007 Bird of the Year vote underlines the crucial influence of the…

Grey Warbler/Riroriro (Gerygone igata) wins at last!

Same jersey as the All Blacks, but a different result.

However, Greme Hill, Secretary of the Committe to Elect the Grey Warbler 2007, would like to unreservedly apologise for…

Grey Warbler wins 2007 Bird Of The Year by landslide.

bumper stickers

My friend sent me some genuine Vote Bush/Cheney 04 bumber stickers. I wanted to put them on my car but I doubted anyone here would have got the joke.
And I didn't want my car kicked in ...
So I didn't ...

And out of curiousity does Graeme or anyone else know if New Zealand has a Big Year…

Darn right. They learned their craft at the knee of masters.
The lovely Mr Daleaway and I have been amusing ourselves for years identifying Bird Noise Cliches in BBC drama productions.

Daytime semi-rural summer scenes: Invisible Brit pigeon.…

""...and if they don't return, HUNT THEM DOWN AND KILL THEM" –

Saw that on a bumper sticker once. Probably the only bumper sticker that ever made me laugh.

Entirely off topic, but the only bumper sticker to make me laugh was one I saw in Pennsylvania.

It had a…

Saw that on a bumper sticker once. Probably the only bumper sticker that ever made me laugh.

"If you love some body, let them go. If they return, they were always yours...."

I also think the Ruru (morepork) is under-recognised as well. Perhaps next year's candidate ?

Come now! The old morepork gets all the gigs on TV ads. The evocative call at the end as you digest the kicker or the quizzical expression of bamboozled human. If the director needs a…

the tuis have come over from the sanctuary and done just that: kicked magpie ass and cleared them out.

To risk crossing the streams – that sounds like Tame Iti's dream for the Tuhoe.

kicked magpie ass and cleared them out.

It's been years since I've seen a magpie at Magpie Lawn. Tui, kereru & kaka in numbers, but no magpies.

The Forest and Bird "Bird Of The Year 2007" will be announced first on Radio Live at approximately 1:50pm this Saturday. I think voting must close around mid-day Saturday.

The on air host at that time will be a very nervous Graeme Hill along with, by sheer fluke, your…

Thank you, Karori Sanctuary.

My family always listens for the pïpïwharauroa as spring arrives, and you get bragging rights when you hear the first one.

So, spring must be here,…

http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/poll.asp

If it isn't the GW then it has to be the North Island Robin, meaning that the GW isn't…

When I was living overseas, that was the birdsong I missed the most, and I never knew what that bird was called until I came home and looked it up. It's the most evocative birdsong – it just sounds like 'home' to me.

I second that – it is powerfully…

When I was living overseas, that was the birdsong I missed the most, and I never knew what that bird was called until I came home and looked…

Tui are the gangland thugs of the bird world, and it's ALL their patch, according to them.

Apparently they will drive off magpies.

My friends live in Melrose, overlooking the zoo, and in recent years, the tuis have come over from the sanctuary and done just that: kicked magpie ass…

What, no mention on the list of our champion aviator the bar-tailed godwit? For pluck and determination, you can't go past it.

Agreed: vote Kuaka! About ten days go (and much to our delight) we happened on a pair of them, recently returned to our local Waiheke beach. Like what…

Here's where it flies, literally on a wing, prayer and a very plump body
http://www.werc.usgs.gov/sattrack/shorebirds/overall.html

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.

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…

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.

1.Grey…

They're funny – until its your tramping sock they nick.

http://www.magiclight.co.nz/wildlifePages/greyWarbler.htm

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.

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)

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…

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…

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…

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…

The riroriro here have a slightly different tune from the riroriro around my parents' place in Taranaki. Regional accents?

They put on a good show for the tourists at the top of the cable car.

But, this year I think I shall be voting for the Weka.

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.