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falco novaeseelandiae

  1. New Zealand Falcon

    New Zealand Falcon

  2. Karearea.jpg

    Karearea.jpg

    The best camera is the one you happen to have; well, this was the case with this very unexpected visitor. The New Zealand falcon (Māori: kārearea; Falco novaeseelandiae) is New Zealand's only falcon. It is the country's most threatened bird of prey, with only around 3000–5000 breeding pairs...
  3. new zealand falcon

    new zealand falcon

    fox glacier 2017
  4. Juvenile New Zealand Falcon

    Juvenile New Zealand Falcon

    This young New Zealand Falcon was high up in a tree in a reserve nearby to where we live
  5. Juvenile New Zealand Falcon

    Juvenile New Zealand Falcon

    Sighted on the Church of the Good Shepherd at Lake Tekapo on NZ's South Island, this juvenile NZ falcon perches contentedly on the cross on top of the church. Sighting mid-afternoon 10 March, 2012. I have a few photos of the same bird if interested.
  6. New Zealand Falcon

    New Zealand Falcon

    Had never seen this bird untill 2008 when I was driving through Dansleys Pass when this bird overtook me and shortly after landed on a water tank beside the road where I was able to photograph it. Can acheive 230km per hour in a dive and mostly takes other birds, some larger than itself, on the...
  7. NZ Falcon

    NZ Falcon

    New Zealand Falcon, resting but watching.
  8. New Zealand Falcon

    New Zealand Falcon

  9. New Zealand Falcon

    New Zealand Falcon

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