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Papa de Mar (Echinocardium cordatum)Observ.
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Wash up on Omapere beach. Soft sediment burrower. Test shown here without its spines. Widespread species of heart urchin.
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Out hunting at night. At edge of native bush. Not sure if it’s P. suteri?
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Mating New Zealand stick insects, here a green female with two smaller brownish males, well camouflaged on a branch of a Casurina tree.
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Photo is of a male, body length 15 mm. Observed over 2019-2020 summer, mainly hovering around flowering lemon balm (Melissa spp.). Also observed female scraping hairs off underside of grapevine leaves.
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Animales Musgo (Filo Bryozoa)Observ.
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Sevaeral species of Cheilostome bryozoans and serpulid worm tubes encrusting a bivalve shell. Washed up at tide line.
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2 sightings this month are the first time we have seen (and heard) kaka in this area!
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Raya Águila de Nueva Zelanda (Myliobatis tenuicaudatus)Observ.
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left behind at low tide and discovered by our dogs! Plenty of feeding traces (depressions) nearby.
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Animales Musgo (Filo Bryozoa)Observ.
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Cheilostome bryozoan colony encrusting a fragment of mussel shell, with serpulid wormtubes and algal holdfast etc.
