Showing posts with label Australasian Harrier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australasian Harrier. Show all posts

Monday, June 26, 2017

SWAMP HARRIER

Photographed at Ambury, New Zealand, June 2017
(*    489)            SWAMP HARRIER           Circus approximans 

NEW ZEALAND               4

Also known as Australasian Harrier; regarded as abundant native in New Zealand. Found over farmland, tussock land, swamps and forest edges. Male 55 cm; female 60 cm. 

Photographed on North Island, June 2017

Photographed at Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, June 2017