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On exhibition at Welcome Swallow Gallery in East Hamilton
On exhibition at Welcome Swallow Gallery in East Hamilton
On exhibition at Welcome Swallow Gallery in East Hamilton
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On exhibition until 17 November at Academy Galleries, Wellington
On exhibition until 17 November at Academy Galleries, Wellington
You can walk around Otorohanga Kiwi House for hours and the tuatara will barely even move.
You know that look....
A fleshy lip on the end of their bill protects it when they forage for aquatic insects among the rocks. They are perfectly camouflaged. Blue/grey in colour, they look just like a rock! Whio live in one of the most challenging environments in the world – fast flowing rivers.
Yes I grew up loving Seagal movies, although Van Dam was always my go to... Sigh.
In real life, I find seagulls a bit creepy, but then I find anyone who watches me eat creeepy....
I have always loved walking through the bush while these cheeky little birds keep me company, flitting around, catching all the bugs I stir up.
Can't beat Waikato in the Spring when all the blossoms bloom and and make the landscape look like a wonderland.
The image of this bear came to me during a meditation when I was going through a tough time and had asked for some strength and guidance. As soon as the bear came to me I felt calm, grounded and strong, I hope you will too every time you look at it.
White-faced herons catch and consume a wide range of prey, including small fish, crabs, worms, insects, spiders, mice, lizards, tadpoles and frogs.
Only 3 prints remaining
Europeans who first colonized New Zealand called Tuis the Parson Bird due to the tufts of white feathers on its neck that resembled a parson’s clerical collar
Kākāriki generally nest in holes in trees. Both parents feed the chicks but the male usually transfers the food to the female, who then passes it along to the chicks (sounds like a great system)
Early European settlers called the North Island birds, the Blue Wattled Crow because of its inquisitiveness. Kokako used to be common throughout the North Island but today fewer than 500 pairs exist.
Its just so flufffy! A wet on wet watercolour. Funnily enough, I painted this wee guy right after painting some adult whio... coincidence??? Wink wink...
Horses have bigger eyes than any other mammal that lives on land.
Collectively, all of the bacteria in the human body weigh about 1.8kg
This is currently hanging in my entrance way, it could be hanging in your entrance way.... I'm just saying... ;)
The tuatara is not a true lizard but a 'living fossil' - a survivor from an ancient group of species. While it looks very much like a lizard, the tuatara skeleton has many differences.
This ‘living fossil’ is the one remaining member of the Order Sphenodontia which was represented by many species during the age of the dinosaurs, some 200 million years ago. All species apart from the tuatara declined and eventually became extinct about 60 million years ago.
The sparrow is a flocking species, and is not often seen alone. Roosting is communal: sometimes several hundreds in dense shrubs or trees.
Despite being clumsy in flight pukeko can fly long distances and are good swimmers, especially considering they don't have webbed feet
New Zealand's flightless parrot, the Kakapo are are the heaviest parrot in the world and also possibly the longest-lived bird species in the world; the low adult mortality rate suggests a mean life expectancy of 90 years.
Fantails mainly eat small invertebrates, such as moths, flies, beetles and spiders. Large prey is subdued by being held in a foot against a perch and then being repeatedly pecked.
Some species of eels travel up to 4,000 miles to breed. This journey can take the eel over seven months to finish. While on the journey, the eel doesn’t eat.
12.7cm x 17.8cm (5 x 7 inches) Watercolour
Robins use a variety of activities to flush hidden or camouflaged prey, such as foot trembling, wing-flicking and tail-flicking. Where robins are regularly exposed to people, such as along public walking tracks, they become quite confident, often approaching to within a metre of a person sitting quietly. Juveniles will sometimes stand on a person’s boot.
In the stage version of "The Wizard of Oz", the dog Toto was replaced by a cow called Imogene.
Pigs are extraordinarily intelligent. They are curious and insightful animals who are widely accepted as being smarter than young children of at least 3 years of age, dogs, and even some primates.
Goldfish have teeth in their throat called pharyngeal teeth which are used to help them crush their food.
This is the only time I actually managed to get the red balloon into a picture :D