New Zealand Birds

11001-52302 Australian coot (Fulica atra australis) a recent arrival, this is one of M F Soper's historic photographs proving the first recorded breeding in NZ. Taken at Lake Hayes in 1958. New Zealand had two species of native coot, that are now extinct, but they were probably terrestrial *

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11001-52302 Australian coot (Fulica atra australis) a recent arrival, this is one of M F Soper's historic photographs proving the first recorded breeding in NZ. Taken at Lake Hayes in 1958. New Zealand had two species of native coot, that are now extinct, but they were probably terrestrial *

coot 52302 Australalian Fulica atra australis M F Soper historic photograph first recorded breeding Lake Hayes 1958 mike soper