On Jul 9, 2011, at 1:47 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: > He's sweet - would love to learn who he really is... do you really call him a > robin down there? That is, is this a common bird really referred to as a > robin locally ? Our robin isn't a real robin either - its a thrush but this > doesn't look like the UK robin either... soo... interested to know.. looking > forward to more snaps from your trip
I'm not that much of a birder so I wouldn't really know. Wikipedia says it's endemic to NZ. Our thrushes are imported and quite a bit larger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Robin Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
