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The birds of New Zealand evolved into an avifauna that included many endemic species found in no other country. As an island archipelago, New Zealand accumulated bird diversity, and when Captain James Cook arrived in the 1770s he noted that the bird song was deafening. The mix includes species with unusual biology such as the kākāpō which is ...
Recurvirostridae is a family of large wading birds, which includes the avocets and stilts. The avocets have long legs and long up-curved bills. The stilts have extremely long legs and long, thin straight bills. Pied stilt, Himantopus leucocephalus. Banded stilt, Cladorhynchus leucocephalus.
The Acanthizidae are small- to medium-sized birds with short rounded wings, slender bills, long legs, and a short tail. The golden-bellied gerygone is the only member of the family found in mainland Asia. Goldenface, Pachycare flavogriseum. Rusty mouse-warbler, Crateroscelis murina.
Queensland. / 15.650°S 144.967°E / -15.650; 144.967. The Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site consists of approximately 8,940 km 2 of Australian wet tropical forests growing along the north-east Queensland portion of the Great Dividing Range. The Wet Tropics of Queensland meets all four of the criteria for natural heritage ...
8 November 2005. Reference no. 1570 [ 1] The Hokersar is a wetland conservation area in Zainakote, in Srinagar district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It lies in the Kashmir Valley, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northwest of Srinagar. [ 1] The Hokersar, which spreads over 1,375 hectares (13.75 km 2 ), is a designated bird sanctuary.
Dromaius novaehollandiae. [1] Australian Capital Territory. Gang-gang cockatoo. Callocephalon fimbriatum. [2] New South Wales. Laughing kookaburra. Dacelo novaeguineae.
Weka are large rails. They are predominantly rich brown mottled with black and grey; the brown shade varies from pale to dark depending on subspecies. The male is the larger sex at 50–60 cm (20–24 in) in length and 532–1,605 g (1.173–3.538 lb) in weight. Females measure 46–50 cm (18–20 in) in length and weigh 350–1,035 g (0.772 ...
[4] [20] Whereas these streaks/spots vary from absent to strong in the west of the species' range, they are absent to faint in the east. [4] [14] There is a single reported case of a gynandromorph bearded reedling where one side of the bird showed mainly male plumage characteristics and the other side female characteristics. [21]