#bellbird — Public Fediverse posts
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@Brad_Rosenheim Yes, there's a significant increase in korimako across this route and all my city routes, especially in the hills. Here's a snapshot of my first and most recent July runs up in the hills by the city. The difference is striking, especially in the native forest.
More trees + older trees + pest control = more forest birds
#birds #korimako #Anthornis #bellbird #nz #EcologicalMonitoring
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Here's an animated movie of the accumulating korimako observations over the past 18 years along my fortnightly 10.1 km run route in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ.
#wildcounts #EcologicalMonitoring #birds #Christchurch #Ōtautahi #NZ #Flickr #animation #map #qgis #bellbird
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When it's raining, might as well sing! Korimako (NZ bellbirds) seem to really like singing when it's raining and we've got at least eight male birds in our garden at the moment performing a concert for us. It's magic!
(The iNaturalist link has the longer recording. This is the shorter radio edit for Mastodon. 😀)
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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.
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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
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Young korimako sound nothing like the melodious bellbird songs of older birds. Instead they go "zick zick zick".
Here's a recording I just made of the young bird in our garden.
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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.
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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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CW: I see and hear very few korimako (NZ bellbirds) in Halswell, NZ. I was saddened to find this male today dead on the side of the road killed by a car.
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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.
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#birds #Kōtare #kingfisher #Kōmako #Korimako #Bellbird
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.
#grateful #alttext #alttextponderings -
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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#SpotTheBird #Bellbird #Kōmako #TreesOfMastodon #trees
It is REALLY hard to find even for me and I was there taking the photos!
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Here are the amazing musical sounds of our Ōtautahi garden this afternoon. About five male korimako (NZ bellbirds) gathered to out-sing the blustery wind.
They sang non-stop for over 15 minutes! I've just put a snippet here. Be sure to wait 20 seconds for them all to sing together.
If you want the full concerto performance, I've put that on #iNaturalistNZ
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Here's a map of all the korimako (bellbirds) I saw and heard in 2022 along my standard run routes through Ōtautahi-Christchurch. Korimako are endemic forest birds that are common in the forests and hill suburbs of Port Hills. They're also now well established in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, and have recently settled into the planted tree patches in the Wigram Retention basin area. They remain rare in the flat suburbs.
#EcologicalMonitoring #WildCounts #Birds #AotearoaNZ #bellbird #korimako