RarghWoolf

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Rachel, she/her Te Whanganui a Tara, Aotearoa Science fiction, outdoors and nature enthusiast. I mostly post my own bird photos and videos from local reserves and sometimes elsewhere in New Zealand 📸

Male karearea yawning while preening
Two young owls
Tui profile
A kākā parrot prying apart a pine cone
A juvenile female titipounamu (also known as a rifleman) inspecting a branch for insects.
A signed copy of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Bear Head
A male titipounamu (rifleman) perched on a mossy old fencepost
A piwakawaka, New Zealand fantail standing on a branch mid-song
A fledgling ruru/morepork
A male titipounamu/rifleman bathing in a shallow dish embedded in a stream
A head shot of a kererū (New Zealand pigeon) hanging upside down with white berries in the background
Yellow-fronted parakeet / kākāriki splashing in a shallow pool
Mātātā peeking out from among a fern bush. Also known as fernbirds, these furtive little birds are hard to spot.
A female ngirungiru (South Island tomtit) is perched on a branch covered in a variety of lichens
An adult male ngirungiru (South Island tomtit) perched on a branch
A path through coastal nikau palm forest on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island
A native New Zealand tieke eyeing the camera from a branch
A toutouwai sitting on a branch, no feet visible, looking like a marshmallow
A young female titipounamu sitting on a branch looking sleepy
A juvenile titipounamu sits with its mouth slightly open while its mother looks for insects
A fly buzzes just as the titipounamu lands at the entrance to her nest
Two whio ducklings preparing for a nap on a rocky beach. An adult whio preens in the background
A storm over a pasture with two cows in it. Taken in rural Waikato.
A kererū attempts to woo a female with a sexy dance while perched on the overhead lines
A juvenile titipounamu
A ruru, a small owl native to New Zealand. She is perched on the hollow trunk of a dead tree fern where she has been nesting
The kākāriki, a small green parakeet, eating berries in the tree canopy
Orion, a female toutouwai, sits on top of her two chicks on the nest. The white feathers at the base of her beak are flared slightly; she is wary of other birds nearby.
A spider. There’s a vagrant spider on the end of the railing
A riroriro (grey warbler) feeding its pīpīwharauroa (shining cuckoo) child
Juvenile titipounamu