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In addition to being a wildlife photographer I have a fair bit of bird watcher in me. I have met many birders over the years, and have received a lot of valuable information and help from them. I am proud to announce that I have just launched a new website: BirdingNZ.net. At the moment there is a discussion forum in its infancy, but I hope the site will grow to enable New Zealand birders and international visitors to readily find and share information about New Zealand’s wild birds. By building and sponsoring this new site I hope to give something back to the people and birds whose company I have enjoyed.
Please, check out www.birdingnz.net, join in, spread the word, and let me know what you think.

Issue 95 of New Zealand Geographic features an article on godwits—written by Denis Welch and photos by me.

The January – February 2009 issue of New Zealand Geographic is now out and the feature on godwits includes a dozen of my photos. Bar-tailed godwits / kuaka (Limosa lapponica) are the commonest Arctic migrant in NZ over the summer months, and they hold the record for the longest non-stop flight of any land bird.

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