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A lot of UK birds were brought over in the 1870/80's to help make settlers feel at home. The goldfinch was just one such bird and although most have done remarkably well a few failed and indeed it's a little surprising that some other's never came!
 
Yep - a European Goldfinch, feeding among European White Clover and European Meadow-grasses. Just shows the extent of the Europeanisation of New Zealand's flora and fauna, that pic wouldn't be out of place at all in Britain.
 
Nutcracker said:
Dunno about that, instead you'd have various Moa, and Haast's Eagle . . . pretty exciting birding where the bird's after you, rather than the other way round! :eek!:
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They would certainly be exciting but they also became extinct a few hundred years before Europeans and Goldfinches arrived in New Zealand.
 
Young Birder said:
If we had not had those intros introduced, birding here would be pretty boring though
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:t: you're welcome - same goes for pies and beer


3:)


had a wonderful time in your neck of the woods last year, went birding all over, from waiheke island down to golden bay and lots around otago - have to say though its pretty funny in retrospect trying to catch a glimpse of some little brown bird flitting around a bush, getting all excited.. is it a rifleman, is it a golden eye.. is it some other exotic foreign rarity.... only to find its a bloody dunnock... other end of the planet and keep finding bloody hedge sparrows... ha ha
 
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