The Kotuku or White Heron
We saw this rare and beautiful bird last Tuesday as we were passing through Thames on the Coromandel Coast in the North Island. It is a large bird and it floated in to land on an old fishing vessel on the intertidal mud flats. .
The mud flats provide a habitat for mangroves which are prolific around the Hauraki Gulf.
There were not many other birds around, some pied shags and a few ducks so it was a great surprise
to see a kotuku. They only breed on the West coast of the South Island so it had travelled some
distance.
All images copy right Frances Jill Studd 2015
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