Birdwatching with This Way Up
We're finding out about New Zealand's birds with birdwatcher Hugh Robertson.
The Black Swan
- Birds: Black swan
We're stalking black swans with birdman Hugh Robertson. (11′30″)
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Photograph by Tony Wills.
The Black-backed Gull
- Birds: Black-backed gull
We chase the black-backed gull with Hugh Robertson. (15′35″)
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Photograph by Peter Morrison. Crown Copyright 1960, Department of Conservation.
The Oystercatcher
- Birds: oystercatcher
We're on the hunt for the Oystercatcher with bird expert Hugh Robertson. It's a cheeky shorebird that pretends to be injured just to lead you away from its nest! (12′15″)
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Photograph by Glen Fergus.
The Harrier
- Birds: Harriers
Harriers with bird expert Hugh Robertson. (16′27″)
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Photograph by russellstreet on Flickr.
The Pukeko
- Birdwatching: Pukeko
A swinger with wings- the pukeko! They're easy with their affections but they get shot, run over and predated in huge numbers so their average life expectancy's only 3 or 4 years! (14′43″)
From This Way Up, 8 October 2011- Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
The Shining Cuckoo
- Birds: Shining cuckoo
We're on the hunt for the rather devious shining cuckoo with birding expert Hugh Robertson. (14′33″)
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- Listen to the shining cuckoo (pīpīwharauroa)
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- Shining cuckoo update
A quick update on last week's story about sightings of the shining cuckoo. Listener Jen Calder may have made a startling discovery. (2′07″)
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Photograph by JL Kendrick. Crown Copyright 1980, Department of Conservation.
Where are the shining cuckoos?
View RNZ This Way Up Shining Cuckoo/Pīpīwharauroa Map in a larger map
The Tui
- Birdwatching: Tui
A spot of birdwatching with Hugh Robertson. The tui loves a spot of biffo and can sing just like a cellphone ringing! (16′41″)
From This Way Up, 13 August 2011- Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
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Photograph by Dick Veitch. Crown Copyright 1967, Department of Conservation.
More birds
The Birds - Ngā Manu
Listen to all of the birdcalls from Morning Report.
The Secret Life of Bird Calls
Saturday Music Feature, 27 November 2010
The first songs that echoed across this land came from birds. In The Secret Life of Bird Calls, Robin Nathan looks at the relationship between bird calls and music. Guests include unsung hero of the 'bird world' Les B. McPherson who has amassed an archive of over 12,000 recorded bird calls, composer Dame Gillian Whitehead who has incorporated bird sounds in her music in various ways, and Associate Professor Ben Bell, an ecologist from the Bioacoustics Research Lab at Victoria University.
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