Showing posts with label New Zealand Pigeon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Zealand Pigeon. Show all posts

Thursday, June 29, 2017

NEW ZEALAND PIGEON

Photographed at Shakespear Regional Park, June 2017
1187                 NEW ZEALAND PIGEON            Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae      

NEW ZEALAND                    21

Known as kereru or kukupa, a common endemic across all New Zealand. 51 cm. Found in native forest, especially in lowland areas, scrub, forest patches among farmland, ruralnand city gardens and parks.