11000-05101 Takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri) with it's re-discoverer, the late Dr Geoffrey Orbell (1908-2007). This picture was taken almost fifty years after Orbell re-discovered the 'Notornis', near this spot on November 20,1948. 'Doc' Orbell was ninety at the time Rod took this photo in Takahe Valley, Murchison Mountains in October 1998 *
11005-27819 Wellington tree weta (Hemideina crassidens) a modified pencil case nailed to a tree, serves as a weta 'nest box' in a Wellington garden *
DSC_7352 Northland brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) chick release. Todd Hamilton, Project Manager for Backyard Kiwi (at rear), and Ben Barr, ranger for Limestone Island, carry the latest kiwi chick onto the refuge. The island, now a predator free sanctuary, once produced cement for the Golden Bay cement company *
