We've got a female korimako (NZ bellbird) back on the Lincoln University campus!

There was great excitement last year (in the right circles) when student William Harland saw the first female korimako ever on campus. Until then it had just been wandering males that had made it from the Port Hills to the university. William spotted her just twice last year.

The good news is that I saw a female today! And, she was foraging with a male, and they'd found the university's oldest (and very small) patch of native trees, where some trees were flowering.

Hopefully the campus will one day be a suitable enough habitat for pairs to stay over the Spring and breed.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/369978646

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=67596&subview=map&taxon_id=12612&verifiable=any&term_id=9&term_value_id=10

#LincolnUniversityNZ #bellbird #birds #nz

Bellbirds are back, baby!

The first korimako, NZ bellbird, was spotted today back on campus at #LincolnUniversityNZ. I got a photo and one of the postgrads recorded it singing.

About this time of year korimako have finished breeding in the forest reserves of the Port Hills and some birds go roaming out across the less suitable habitats of the Canterbury Plains. A few find the university campus. It's usually the male birds that get this far out, as was the case today.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/349975490

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/349975490

#birds #nz #bellbird

Here's a recently fledged baby korimako (NZ bellbird) that's settled in our garden this week. Its mother is sometimes coming by to check in.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/334991764

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for the second week in a row I was so anxious I totally forgot about @KateShaw 's podcast. But now I've downloaded it and will begin listening soon.

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/07/14/episode-441-mean-birds/

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https://inaturalist.nz/observations/282330853

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This is the bird we call Dent Head.

We first saw Dent Head visiting our garden in October 2021. He had such a colossal head injury that we didn't expect he'd last long.

Instead, his head has healed (sort of) and he's been a regular visitor to our garden ever since.

Here's Dent Head yesterday, feeding from one of our sugar water feeders while I was hanging out laundry less than 2 metres away.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/260354173

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This morning's walk included seeing three kōtare and a korimako, as well as countless tūī, and various other song birds. I stood looking up to find which bird was exercising its vocal range and marvelled at all the trills and sounds coming from one small camouflaged bird.
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I also spotted a New Zealand Bellbird. It doesn’t sound anything like a bell though. Very active sipping nectar from the new flowers.

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