Chris Gaskin

This medium-sized, all-dark petrel with a pale face is one of the few burrowing seabirds to have survived on New Zealand’s main islands, albeit in...

The white-faced storm-petrel’s ability to ‘walk on water’ has earned it that colloquial name of the ‘Jesus-bird’. These small 50-gram seabirds have long legs and...

Graceful ocean travellers While humans increasingly turn to technology to get a catch at sea, seabirds have evolved their own rather special techniques. For example,...

When I moved here from the West Island 14 years ago it struck me how resilient the Kiwi bush and animals were, if given the...

The Okura Walkway between Stillwater village and the Karepiro Bay foreshore has a special character that with goodwill and cooperation can be greatly enhanced over...

Some people tell me that all seabirds look alike and are hard to tell apart. Well, it’s true, some do, and even in the hand...

Here in Rodney, the natural world provides signals that tell us that summer is on its way – for example, cabbage trees in full flower...

It’s not often one can say, “I saw New Zealand’s rarest bird from the back deck of our house”. But last weekend, that’s what happened....

The Australasian gannet is spectacular in many ways – a stunning bird to look at in flight, with its blindingly white plumage and glowing orange...

For many people, red-billed gulls are very much New Zealand’s ‘fish and chip’ bird. While they can be aggressive scavengers, they have an intriguing range...