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大濱鷸 (Calidris tenuirostris)觀察者
caiden_b描述
Continuing bird. Great birding this morning with @islandnaturespotter
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tonyjewell描述
Not sure what to make of this one, found in a very isolated little area of creviced schist rock in the Waitaki Valley, between 20-30 km inland and only about 1 km south of the Waitaki River. Its size (SVL around 55-60 mm) would suggest an Alps (a number of adults including gravid females seen, confirming they are small), but its deep yellow eyes, toe shape and general colour pattern are quite unlike the Alps' among greywacke further west in the same valley, and I don't know of any alps anywhere having deep yellow eyes. Korero geckos are off to the south in the Kakanui Mts system, but although small for their species there they are still distinctly bigger then these ones and with rather different patterning. If I had to guess I'd probably go with aberrant Southern Alps gecko, maybe with some korero genetic influence? Superficially they're a little like the schist gecko, but surely much too isolated to be a population of them.
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spectacular duoculture of Anisotome latifolia and Bulbinella rossii. Such a sunny day that the heat shimmer was thwarting my attempts to do a telephoto foreshortening thingie
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ameduna描述
Discovered after New Year, with lots of feathers and foot prints around sitting in same place for a while. Moulting penguin. Checked on 12 Jan and penguin had gone back to sea.
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Managed to see 2/3 snipe so pretty pleased (and Snares Snipe would be a bit of an unreasonable hope).
As you might expect I have an absurd number of photos from this trip. Complicated by taking all the photos in lossless NEF but Nikon's own software crashes when batch editing or exporting, lol
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Quite a few of these around! Small group from a light I left at the Divide.
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屬 Oligosoma描述
Pallid skink - an undescribed species. Cryptic skink are found in the same area but at lower elevation. This species has the altitude record for skinks in Otago at 1,900 metres a.s.l.
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Aotearoa's most recently described skink. Mataura skink (Oligosoma aureocola). Species name means 'dweller in gold' refering to the species strong use of Golden Spaniard or spear grass (Aciphylla aurea). Can someone chonk out the Wikipedia /iNat page? Knox, C.D., Patterson, G.B., Chapple, D.G. (2023): Oligosoma aureocola sp. nov. (Reptilia: Scincidae) from the northern Southland high country of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Zootaxa. 22 pp.
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鰕虎目 (目 Gobiiformes)觀察者
jeanthomasbujard描述
(old, 1-2 years)
E. fusca ?
Freshwater.
Pictures showing fw biotope June 22, 2022.
System keeps me from changing Gobiiformes to Eleotris.
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美洲尖尾濱鷸 (Calidris melanotos)觀察者
jtweed描述
A pair of pectoral sandpipers that have been hanging out at Mission Pool for the past week. Not the greatest photos unfortunately. Heavily streaked breast stopping abruptly at white belly; yellowish colour at base of bill.
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kenneth_r_wood描述
PTBG herbarium (Wood 9345)
We called this Hebe rapensis (F.Br.) Garn.-Jones
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蟬總科 (總科 Cicadoidea)觀察者
argonauta描述
Just the exoskeleton of a cicada. Left behind once the insect emerged and moved on to the next stage.
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Emoia nigra觀察者
theylooklikeus描述
Saw a few of these darker skinks, only in the South East of Niue though probably exist everywhere. Seemed on average larger and more skittish than the much more common copper tail and azure skinks.
