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 *
11001-41915 Blue duck (Hymenoliamus malacorhynchos) DoC researcher Pete Mc Murtrie, radio-tracking a duck nesting in temperate rainforest beside the Arthur River, Fiordland
DSC_6625 Brown teal (Anas chlorotis) more than 20 teal visit Mike Camm's man-made pond - a significant percentage of the Northland population. Mike coordinates a group of Northland landowners who all keep their properties 'predator free', thus benefiting the vulnerable little teal as well as Northland brown kiwi.
