DOC Website - Facts and Stuff about the Kereru. This includes recommendations to protect the Kereru in it's natural habitat by not eating it.
Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Te Ara - A pigeon trough. A traditional way to catch pigeons.
NZHistory.net - Certificate of Attendance to New Zealand Centennial, featuring an image of a kereru (also a tui, and a kiwi I think). These represent New Zealand's environment, while the sky scrapers represent what the future will bring. Or something.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Fact Finder - the Kereru or "New Zealand Woodpigeon"
DOC Website - Facts and Stuff about the Kereru. This includes recommendations to protect the Kereru in it's natural habitat by not eating it.
Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Te Ara - A pigeon trough. A traditional way to catch pigeons.
NZHistory.net - Certificate of Attendance to New Zealand Centennial, featuring an image of a kereru (also a tui, and a kiwi I think). These represent New Zealand's environment, while the sky scrapers represent what the future will bring. Or something.
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You know what the kereru should do on the skyscrapers, right?
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ReplyDeletethis is a particularly plump specimen. Are you trying to say something? Rather than on a branch how do these things look on a spit?
I know, I know, too flippant. But there seems to be an abundance of wildlife in the antipodes so why not flaunt it? Or even saute it? Or braise it, boil it, cook it slowly in one of those slow cookers, maybe with some carrots and a bay leaf and a glass of fine wine. Hey, Australian and New Zealand now produce some of the world's finest wines and that bird is just asking to be eaten with wine. That bird has dish of the week written all over it's beautiful plumage.
I've gone too far again haven't I?
Illegal Tegal, mate.
ReplyDeleteThey're also very slow moving, and kind of crash through the trees. Scare the shit out of you if you're walking through the bush.
There's lots of wildlife (or in NZ, birdlife) but tragically much of it is endangered. For more general information on this, I recommend Michael King's A History of New Zealand. Mm, seminal.
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ReplyDeletecome baaaaaaaaaack.
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