Nature photographs

Here's a selection of wildlife photographs of native species I've taken around New Zealand over the past decade:

BIRDS

Antipodes Island parakeet/Kākāriki (Cyanoramphus unicolor)

Arctic skua (Stercorarius parasiticus)

Australian coot (Fulica atra australis)

Australasian crested grebe/Pūteketeke (Podiceps cristatus)

Australasian gannet/Takapu (Morus serrator)

Australasian harrier/Kahu (Circus approximans)

Australasian shoveler/Kuruwhengi (Spatula rhynchotis)

Australasian swamphen/Pūkeko (Porphyrio melanotus)

Banded dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus)

Barn owl (Tyto alba)

Bar-tailed godwit/Kuaka (Limosa lapponica baueri)

Bellbird/Korimako (Anthornis melanura)

Black-billed gull/Tarāpuka (Larus bulleri)

Black-fronted tern/Tarapirohe (Chlidonias albostriatus)

Black shag/Māpunga (Phalacrocorax carbo)

Black swan/Kakīānau (Cygnus atratus)

Blue duck/Whio (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos)

Brown teal/Pāteke (Anas chlorotis)

Buller's shearwater/Rako (Ardenna bulleri)

Caspian tern/Taranui (Hydroprogne caspia)

Fantail/Piwakawaka (Rhipidura fuliginosa)

Fairy prion/Tītī wainui (Pachyptila turtur)

Flesh-footed shearwater/Toanui (Ardenna carneipes)

Fluttering shearwater/Pakahā (Puffinus gavia)

Grey duck/Pārera (Anas superciliosa)

Grey-tailed tattler (Tringa brevipes)

Grey teal/Tētē (Anas gracilis)

Grey warbler/Riroriro (Gerygone igata)

Hutton's shearwater/Kaikōura tītī (Puffinus huttoni)

Kākā (Nestor meridionalis)

Kea (Nestor notabilis)

Kingfisher/Kōtare (Todiramphus sanctus)

Lesser knot/Huahou (Calidris canutus)

Little blue penguin/Kororā (Eudyptula minor)

Little black shag/Kawau tūī (Phalacrocorax sulcirostris)

Little shag/Kawau paka (Microcarbo melanoleucos)

Morepork/Ruru (Ninox novaeseelandiae)

New Zealand Dabchick/Weweia (Poliocephalus rufopectus)

New Zealand dotterel/Tūturiwhatu (Charadrius obscurus)

New Zealand falcon/Kārearea (Falco novaeseelandiae)

New Zealand pigeon/Kererū (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae)

New Zealand pipit/Pīhoihoi (Anthus novaeseelandiae)

New Zealand scaup/Pāpango (Aythya novaeseelandiae)

Northern royal albatross/Toroa (Diomedea sanfordi)

North Island robin/Toutouwai (Petroica longipes)

North Island kōkako (Callaeas wilsoni)

North Island saddleback/Tīeke (Philesturnus rufusater)

Otago shag/Kawau (Leucocarbo chalconotus)

Pacific golden plover/Kuriri (pluvialis fulva)

Paradise shelduck/Pūtangitangi (Tadorna variegata)

Pied shag/Kāruhiruhi (Phalacrocorax varius)

Pied Stilt/Poaka (Himantopus leucocephalus)

Red-billed gull/Tarāpunga (Larus novaehollandiae)

Red-crowned parakeet/Kākāriki (Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae)

Royal spoonbill/Kōtuku ngutupapa (Platalea regia)

Ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres)

Salvin's mollymawk/Toroa (Thalassarche salvini)

Shining cuckoo/Pīpīwharauroa (Chrysococcyx lucidus)

Silvereye/Tauhou (Zosterops lateralis)

Southern black-backed gull/Karoro (Larus dominicanus)

South Island pied oystercatcher/Tōrea (Haematopus finschi)

Spotless crake/Pūweto (Zapornia tabuensis)

Spotted shag/Pārekareka (Stictocarbo punctatus)

Spur-winged plover (Vanellus miles)

Stitchbird/Hihi (Notiomystis cincta)

Takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri)

Tomtit/Ngirungiru (Petroica macrocephala)

Tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae)

Variable oystercatcher/Tōrea pango (Haematopus unicolor)

Weka (Gallirallus australis)

Welcome swallow/Warou (Hirundo tahitica neoxena)

White-capped mollymawk/Toroa (Thalassarche cauta)

White-faced heron/Takahikare-moana (Ardea novaehollandiae)

White-fronted tern/Tara (Sterna striata)

White heron/Kōtuku (Ardea modesta)

Whitehead/Pōpokotea (Mohoua albicilla)

Wrybill/Ngutu pare (Anarhynchus frontalis)

Yellow-crowned parakeet/Kākāriki (Cyanoramphus auriceps)
REPTILES

Barking gecko (Naultinus punctatus)

Chevron skink/Niho taniwha (Oligosoma homalonotum)

Copper skink (Oligosoma aeneum)

Duvaucel's gecko/Mokomoko (Hoplodactylus duvaucelii)

Elegant gecko/Moko kākāriki (Naultinus elegans)

Falla's skink/Mokomoko (Oligosoma fallai)

Grand skink/Mokomoko (Oligosoma grande)

Jewelled gecko/Mokomoko (Naultinus gemmeus)

Moko skink (Oligosoma moco)

Northern grass skink/Ngārara (Oligosoma polychroma)

Northland green gecko/Moko kākāriki (Naultinus grayii)

Otago skink (Oligosoma otagense)

Pacific gecko/Ngārara pāpā (Dactylocnemis pacificus)

Rough gecko/Moko pārae (Naultinus rudis)

Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus)
FISH

Banded kōkopu (Galaxias fasciatus)

Black mudfish/Hauhau (Neochanna diversus)

Common bully/Toitoi (Gobiomorphus cotidianus)

Estuarine triplefin (Forsterygion nigripenne)

Giant kōkopu (Galaxias argenteus)

Grey Mullet/Mauhauaitu (Mugil cephalus)

Kaharore bully/Toitoi (Gobiomorphus mataraerore)

New Zealand eagle ray (Myliobatis tenuicaudatus)

New Zealand longfin eel/Tuna (Anguilla dieffenbachii)

New Zealand shortfin eel/Tuna (Anguilla australis)

Olive rockfish/Taumaka (Acanthoclinus fuscus)

Parore (Girella tricuspidata)

Short-tail stingray/Whai (Bathytoshia brevicaudata)

Silver trevally/Araara (Pseudocaranx Dentex)
 
INVERTEBRATES

Australian spotted jellyfish (Phyllorhiza punctata)

Big-handed crab (Heterozius rotundifrons)

Blue damselfly/Kekewai (Austrolestes colensonis)

Bluish Top Shell/Matangongore (Diloma nigerrima)

Cat's eye snail/Ataata (Lunella smaragdus)

Cave wētā/Tokoriro (Pachyrhamma acanthoceras)

Clapping cicada (Amphipsalta cingulata)

Common bag moth/Hare atua (Liothula omnivora)

Common Blue butterfly/Pepe Ao Uri (Zizina otis labradus)

Common redcoat damselfly (Xanthocnemis zealandica)

Common shrimp (Palaemon affinis)

Freshwater crayfish/Kōura (Paranephrops planifrons)

Garden orbweb spider (Eriophora pustulosa)

Hairy-handed crab/Papaka huruhuru (Hemigrapsus crenulatus)

Hermit crab (Diacanthurus spinulimanus)

Huhu beetle (Prionoplus reticularis)

Isopod (Isocladus armatus)

Katydid/Kiki Pounamu (Caedicia simplex)

Kina (Evechinus chloroticus)

Large Horn Shell/Koeti (Zeacumantus lutulentus)

Lemon tree borer (Oemona hirta)

Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexiuppus)

Mud whelk (Cominella glandiformis)

New Zealand cockle/Tuangi (Austrovenus stutchburyi)

New Zealand giraffe weevil/Pepeke nguturoa (Lasiorhynchus barbicornis)

New Zealand half crab (Petrolisthes elongatus)

New Zealand praying mantis (Orthodera novaezealandiae)

New Zealand rock oyster/Tio repe (Saccostrea glomerata)

Nurseryweb spider (Dolomedes minor)

Olive anemone/Humenga (Isactinia olivacea)

Ornate limpet (Cellana ornata)

Owlet moth (Ichneutica arotis)

Portuguese man o' war/Ihumoana (Physalia physalis)

Prickly stick insect/Rō (Acanthoxyla prasina)

Plicate barnacle/Tiotio Rahi (Epopella plicata)

Purple rock crab (Leptograpsus varietgatus)

Rauparaha's Copper/Mokarakare (Lycaena rauparaha)

Red-mouthed Whelk (Cominella virgata)

Red rock lobster/Kōura (Jasus edwardsii)

Seashore earwig (Anisolabis littorea)

Sentry dragonfly (Hemicordulia australiae)

Smooth-Handed Crab/Päpaka (Pilumnopeus serratifrons)

Soft shore isopod (Scyphax ornatus)

Speckled anemone (Oulactis mucosa)

Spotted Top Snail/Pūpū (Diloma aethiops)

Smooth stick insect (Clitarchus hookeri)

Snakeskin chiton (Sypharochiton pelliserpentis)

Snapping shrimp (Alphaeus novazealandia)

Striped longhorn beetle (Coptomma sticticum)

Tree wētā (Hemideina thoracica)

Tunnelling mud crab/Päpaka (Austrohelice crassa)

Unarmed stick insect (Acanthoxyla inermis)

Wandering Anemone/Hūmenga (Phlyctenactis tuberculosa)
 
MAMMALS

Bottlenose dolphin/Terehu (Tursiops truncatus)

Fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri)

Killer whale (Orcinus orca)

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