Pests-be-gone

Maria Island, site of the world’s first island-wide eradication of invasive rodents (in the 1960s). We couldn’t land the boat on the rocks, so I swam over to take a look. Those hills are covered with seabird burrows!

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I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.

“Wh” is pronounced “f”

@oscarkokako looks pretty happy to be meeting a Grey-faced Petrel chick at Tawharanui with @friesenmegan. (Soon after, the sun went down and a big storm sprang up – just in time for catching adult petrels as they flew in from the ocean for the night.) This species nests only in the north of New Zealand – nowhere else in the world.

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I'm in New Zealand for a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship.

Two weeks in NZ!

This year I'm doing a Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellowship in New Zealand.
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Badge of honor

How very exciting to be based out of @AucklandMuseum this year for my #fulbright #natgeo #seabirdstory fellowship

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Kiwiland

Look! Look! Guess what it is! (Tawharanui, NZ) pic.twitter.com/86N7WrYmNu

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) September 19, 2017

Yes, that is indeed the hind end of a North Island brown kiwi.