Noisy Island Voyage

En route to the amazing Noises Islands!

A post shared by Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) on Sep 28, 2017 at 2:00am PDT

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.

A post shared by Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) on Sep 25, 2017 at 7:38pm PDT

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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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.

Back from Burgess

@sketchbiologist reflects on first days in the field NZ. Albatross, shearwaters, prions, divers & stormies in view pic.twitter.com/Cy2NMWqS7m

— Chris Gaskin (@PetrelsInPeril) September 15, 2017

Boat trip back from the Mokohinau Islands (Burgess, specifically) in the amazing Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand.