DSC_4724 Shining cuckoo, or pīpīwharauroa (Chrysococcyx lucidus lucidus) courtship feeding in spring, male on right offering a captured mayfly to the female. Rotorua
11001-76513 South Island laughing owl (Ninox albifacies) museum mount. About twice the size of of its close relative, the morepork, this long-legged owl looked and behaved quite differently. It was probably extinct before 1892 in much of the North Island, and gone by about 1930 in the South Island. Although it coexisted with early European settlement, mustelids and cats probably brought about its demise *
11001-76516 South Island laughing owl (Ninox albifacies) museum mount. About twice the size of of its close relative, the morepork, this long-legged owl looked and behaved quite differently. It was probably extinct before 1892 in much of the North Island, and gone by about 1930 in the South Island. Although it coexisted with early European settlement, mustelids and cats probably brought about its demise *
