It is hard to miss the bulk of a Kererū (New Zealand Pigeon, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) when it clumsily ‘crashes’ onto a slender tree branch. All the more when the tree in question is right outside your window! I took this photo from inside my house.

A Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne newsletter early in 2024 described certain behaviours of fledgling birds thus…

…if you see a bird … landing on an offshoot that clearly can’t support its weight, it may well be a fledgling (the exception being kererū, which retain the inability to identify supportive branches into adulthood).

Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne newsletter.

This photo was not taken in the middle of a main road; I don’t want to pinpoint a family home, so it’s in the general area.