IMG_0598 Great spotted kiwi (Apteryx haastii) handler Nic Menary, searches for a signal from a pair of wild kiwi across the valley, on a forested ridge above Arthurs Pass township. Arthurs Pass National Park *
11001-05323 Great spotted kiwi (Apteryx haastii) adult female probing forest floor, approached by Tony Caley. Northwest Nelson *
DSC_8950 Peter Hayden, (background) with New Zealand and Australian palaeontologists Associate Professor Trevor Worthy, from Flinders University (left), and Dr Jacqueline M.T. Nguyen, from Australian Museum (centre), and Yann-Pierre Montelle, from Te Ana Maori Rock Art (foreground), excavate 19-16 million-year-old (Early Miocene) lake-bed deposits near the Manuherikia River, St Bathans, Central Otago *