New Zealand Birds

DSC_6654 Campbell Island flightless teal (Anas nesiotis) pair foraging on shoreline showing characteristic reduced wings. On subantarctic Dent Island where this small duck was rediscovered, there is no coastal platform and the teal were concentrated about the islands lower slopes living amongst white-chinned petrel and sooty shearwater burrows. Now with the removal of Norway rats they have returned to the main island, Tucker Cove, Perseverance Harbour, Campbell Island *

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