{"id":419,"date":"2024-06-01T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justbirds.photo\/?p=419"},"modified":"2024-04-20T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T04:15:09","slug":"kereru-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justbirds.photo\/2024\/kereru-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerer\u016b"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is hard to miss the bulk of a Kerer\u016b (New Zealand Pigeon, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae<\/em>) 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<\/em> my house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Zealandia Te M\u0101ra a T\u0101ne newsletter early in 2024 described certain behaviours of fledgling birds thus…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…if you see a bird … landing on an offshoot that clearly can\u2019t support its weight, it may well be a fledgling (the exception being kerer\u016b, which retain the inability to identify supportive branches into adulthood).<\/p>\nZealandia Te M\u0101ra a T\u0101ne newsletter.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

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