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Seabirds – White-fronted tern

These sleek white-fronted tern are a fairly common sight along our coasts. Fishers call them ‘kahawai birds’ because flocks will be very active over kahawai...

Seabirds – Captivating fairy prions dazzle in flight

Fairy prions are small petrels and their dove-like appearance gives them another name – dove petrels. In size, they are between Cook’s petrels and storm...

Seabirds – The common diving petrel

Photo, Les Feasey. Tiny divers making remarkable journeys south ‘Flies like a Buzzy Bee’, ‘flying penguin’, ‘aerodynamically challenged’, ‘skipping stone’ – these are phrases that...