t_l_wood, 2 months ago to Birds

Birbs and a butterfly from my walk yesterday.

#NaturePhotography #birds #AotearoaNZ

A bird sitting in native New Zealand trees peeking out from the leaves. It is black with a white tuft of feathers at its throat.
A butterflies in orange, yellow and black with white speckles sitting on a native NZ white hebe flower.
Around 8 common NZ ducks on a river in the sunlight swimming towards the camera.

teepee_cider, 2 months ago to homebrewing

This is us next week. At Beau Vista orchards the early apples (Tom Putt) and Dyer’s Perry pears are ready for harvesting and fermenting into TeePee Cider. Early this year due to ideal grow conditions from Spring onwards . Woodcut by Chris Wormell #orchards #perry #cider #apples #pears #wairarapa #aotearoaNZ

ShayneParkinson, 4 months ago to random

The #garden is pleasantly riotous just now. #summer #AotearoaNZ

Ruth_Mottram, 5 months ago to firefox

Waiting at the hairdresser so time for one of my periodic #ClearTheTabs threads on random stuff I have open in my #Firefox...

First up a paper I think @DrEvanGowan shared on Palaeo #SeaLevels from Australia that appear to confirm the vulnerability of #Antarctica to loss under #ClimateChange 1/many

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adg3035

paulaborchardt, 8 months ago to art

For today’s #SciArtSeptember prompt “Nocturnal” here’s my art of a Kiwi 😍 that I saw in the wild on a night hike in New Zealand!

This is Day 23 of my New Zealand Visual Trip Journal. You can see my entire New Zealand Visual Trip Journal at https://paulaborchardt.com/illustration/new-zealand.html#nz-visual-trip-journal

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #kiwi #NewZealand #Aotearoa #AotearoaNZ #NZ

bananabob, 8 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to nz

Daylight Saving starts in New Zealand on Sunday 24 September. There is a bit of discontent every year. So what do you think?

Please boost for wide coverage.

#NZ #AotearoaNZ #NZDST #NZTwits #DaylightSaving

bananabob, 8 months ago to nz

I am so proud of my Ngutukākā/Kākābeak. These are the first time it has flowered for me since I planted it. I wonder if it will attract the Tūī? 🏆

#AotearoaNZ #NZ #Flower

smollestbunny, 8 months ago to aotearoa

THIS POLICY WILL KILL DISABLED PEOPLE. THIS POLICY WILL KILL DISABLED PEOPLE
CAN A JOURNO PLEASE CONTACT ME ON A STORY ABOUT HOW THIS WILL KILL DISABLED PEOPLE

PLEASE I NEED A DECENT JOURNO TO HELP DO A STORY ON THIS PLEASE. PLEASE

Please BOOST
#aotearoa #aotearoanz #eugenics #actpartyfascists #nzfascism #killingofdisabledpeople #nzpolitics #nzpol #nzjournos #nzjournalists #help

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/498064/act-leader-david-seymour-wants-to-see-more-drug-addicts-sickness-beneficiaries-rejoin-workforce?fbclid=IwAR0zJfq_ujC_fjTIS4v2zWHtDXtp0iBUEji7whiUTsVw5YS_Zg9Wk9NyKkM

Edent, 9 months ago to ai

Amazing.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes

A supermarket in #AotearoaNZ launches an #AI meal planner which suggests people eat poison and concoct chlorine gas.

(℅ @summerbeth)

zyk, 10 months ago to random

Do you think we'll ever move away from the #nztwits hashtag? Some of you have been here a while now, it'd be pretty cool to see something new/different

hesgen, 11 months ago to climate

Dunedin woman who took the piss out of oil execs could face 10 years in jail.

#RosemaryPenwarden #climate #AotearoaNZ

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/132314195/this-is-a-motivation-for-me-climate-activist-found-guilty-on-two-forgery-charges

joncounts, 1 year ago to nature

It's time for a proper #introduction. Kia ora.

I'm an #ecology lecturer at #LincolnUniversityNZ and live in Ōtautahi-Christchurch. I'm interested in #EcologicalMonitoring, #BiologicalInvasions (esp. #weeds), and NZ #NaturalHistory (so much still to discover!). I'm site admin for #iNaturalistNZ #MātakiTaiao, the NZ node of #iNaturalist.

I'm @joncounts because I count a lot of nature (~17,000 species counts each month). See https://wildcounts.org.

#AotearoaNZ #nature #plants #insects #birds

Here are the monarch butterflies (orange) and cabbage white butterflies (white), both exotic species in #AotearoaNZ, that I counted in February 2022 between the Port Hills and the city centre.
Here are the house sparrows (white) and starlings (blue), both exotic species in #AotearoaNZ, that I counted in February 2022 between the Port Hills and the city centre. Note these species are largely absent from the hills but dominate the suburbs.
Here are the kahukura/red admiral butterflies (red, endemic species) and yellow admiral butterflies (yellow, Australian species now native in NZ), that I counted in February 2022 between the Port Hills and the city centre of Ōtautahi-Christchurch, New Zealand. Kahukura are mostly in the hills away from the city.