Mark Hows @mammalmark - Bluesky Profile

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01.12.2025 13:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Weka watching

Mountain Flora

Kaikoura Albatross Watching

Southern Brown Kiwi

🇳🇿 New Zealand - My trip is over and I am flying home so my last post of a few photos

29.11.2025 23:16 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Moth sp

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 21 was just a travelling day so just a few photos of South Island Moths yet to be identified 3/3

29.11.2025 23:04 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Shieldbug sp

Steel blue ladybird

Ladybird sp

Weta sp

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 21 was just a travelling day so just a few photos of other stuff some other insects 2/3

29.11.2025 22:54 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Copper sp

Unknown

New Zealand Red Admiral

Blue sp

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 21 was just a travelling day so just a few photos of other stuff first some Lepidoptera 1/3

29.11.2025 22:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Black Stilt

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 20 - The last day of birding was dedicated to one bird, the black stilt and we were very lucky to get amazing extended views of this incredibly rare wader

29.11.2025 03:54 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Otago shag

Yellow eyed penguin

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 19 - Working our way up the SE coast today's highlight was the yellow eyed penguins

27.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fairy Prion

Cook's Petrel

South Polar Skua

Grey backed storm petrel

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 18 - Stewart Island Pelagic 2/2 - Some other excellent species including mottled and soft plumage petrels along with the commoner species

27.11.2025 08:22 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Salvin's Albatross

White capped Albatross

Southern Royal Albatross

Campbell Albatross

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 18 - Stewart Island Pelagic 1/2 An excellent showing of Albatross over 60 individuals at one stage

27.11.2025 04:43 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New Zealand Sealion

Yellowhead

Weka

South Island Saddleback

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 17 - Stewart Island, Bulwers albatross, yellowhead, weka amongst the many avian highlights and some excellent New Zealand Sealions

26.11.2025 08:40 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New Zealand Rock Wren

Kea

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 16 - A cracking day in the mountains for just one bird the New Zealand Rock Wren, although a car park Kea was good value

25.11.2025 17:51 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Rifleman

Black billed gull

Fjordland penguin

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 15 - Down the west coast, only a few birds on a mostly travelling day.

25.11.2025 17:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fernbird

Bellbird

Tui

Long finned eel

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 14 - In the Okarito area, multiple sightings of the Okarito kiwi (no photos) but some common species and a long finned eel

24.11.2025 05:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kea

Kea

Tom tit

Black fronted tern

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 13 - Through Arthur's pass today to the west coast, Kea were the highlight

24.11.2025 05:27 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Northern Royal Albatross

Salvin's Albatross

Grey faced petrel

White capped Albatross

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 12 - Kaikoura Pelagic with some excellent views of Albatross, petrels and shearwater, grey faced petrel of note but Northern Royal Albatross the star

21.11.2025 10:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bog porina

Brown evening moth

New Zealand cutworm

Forest looper

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Noth Island Mothing 2/2 - possible ids in the Alt #teammoth

20.11.2025 20:06 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Epyaxa lucidata

Barred coprosma carpet

Green coprosma carpet

Clematis triangle

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Noth Island Mothing 1/2 - possible ids in the Alt #teammoth

20.11.2025 19:04 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Hectors Dolphin

Dusky Dolphin

New Zealand Fur Seal

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 11 - Queen Charlotte sound and Blumine island 2/2 - Awesome mammals - Hectors dolphin is very rare

20.11.2025 09:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Weka

Spotted shag

King shag

Orange fronted parakeet

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 11 - Queen Charlotte sound and Blumine island 1/2 - Awesome birds - King shag and orange fronted parakeet are super rare

20.11.2025 09:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dusky Dolphin

New Zealand Dabchick

Tom tit

Shining cuckoo

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 10 - Foxton to Picton - Mostly travelling, dusky dolphin of note from the ferry and a few photos from the North Island to finish our time there

19.11.2025 04:22 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Royal spoonbill

Spotless crake

Black billed gull

New Zealand pipit

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 9 - Napier to Foxton we had excellent views of all the birds today in perfect weather conditions the spotless crake showed amazingly well

18.11.2025 09:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Australisian bittern

Fernbird

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 8 - Lake Taupo to Napier produced a few good birds despite the mixed weather

18.11.2025 08:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New Zealand Falcon

Blue Duck

Wrybill

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 7 - An excellent day from the Thames estuary to Lake Taupo catching up with some excellent birds the Blue ducks showed very well

17.11.2025 04:46 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Stitchbird

Kōkako

Red crowned parakeet

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 6 - Still poor conditions but we made a day trip to Tiritiri island in the pouring rain to catch up with some rare species the Kōkako was awesome

15.11.2025 08:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Caspian Tern

Laughing kookaburra

New Zealand Bellbird

North Island Robin

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 5 - Terrible weather so no kiwis possible but we managed a few new birds in the torrential rain

14.11.2025 08:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Common dolphin

Long finned pilot whale

Wilson's storm Petrel

Little shearwater

🇳🇿 New Zealand- Day 4 - Another Pelagic, very calm so few birds, Wilson's storm Petrel of note but the cetaceans were the star, common and bottlenose dolphins and long fin pilot whales

13.11.2025 08:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0