DSC_1850 Australian wood duck, or maned goose (Chenonetta jubata) male in flight, a straggler to NZ with fewer than 20 records, typically from the South Island, and Snares. A sister species to New Zealand's extinct Finsch's duck (Chenonetta finschi) *
DSC_1849 Australian wood duck, or maned goose (Chenonetta jubata) male on water, a straggler to NZ with fewer than 20 records, typically from the South Island, and Snares. A sister species to New Zealand's extinct Finsch's duck (Chenonetta finschi) *
DSC_8950 New Zealand and Australian palaeontologists excavate 19-16 million-year-old (Early Miocene) lake-bed deposits near the Manuherikia River, St Bathans, Central Otago *
