New Zealand, 2023

Poplars
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Bull Thistle
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Large Earth Bumblebee
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South Island Pied Oystercatcher
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A Southern Black-billed Gull with a Short-Finned River Eel
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A Southern Black-billed Gull with a Short-Finned River Eel
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A Southern Black-billed Gull with a Short-Finned River Eel
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A Gull
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Chorus Cicada, endemic to New Zealand. There were a lot of them!
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A bird and a moon.

They have monarchs in New Zealand! They're considered native (but not endemic) because they probably flew (or were blown) there without the help of people. They were first recorded in New Zealand in the mid-1800s.
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Mussels. These attacked me at Taylor's Mistake. The little black ones are called Little Black Mussels. The larger bluish ones are Tasmanian Blue Mussels.
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A mad scientist.

This is what she was looking at: a Snakeskin Chiton.

Malva
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Josh in the racing kayak

Josh in the racing kayak

Me in the real racing kayak.

Red-Billed Gull
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A Snakeskin Chiton, in a tidal pool.
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Alien

Variable Oystercatcher
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Little Black Mussels
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A Mudflat Titiko in a mud flat.
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Common White-faced Heron
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Tunneling Mud Crabs, in the mud
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A mountain.

A beach.

A Fly.
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The beach, Pancake Rocks.

The beach, Pancake Rocks.

A wave.

A Weka
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Passionvine Hopper
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Torpedo Bug
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Red Damselfly
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The dreaded, world-infamous Knobbled Orbweaver.
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Himalayan Honeysuckle
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Red Clover
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A Little Shag on a rock.
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Water.

Plicate Barnacle
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A Copper
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Rocks, Birds, and Waves

Another Copper
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(The genus and names are mixed up at the moment.)

The dreaded, world-famous Knobbled Orbweaver.
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Black-headed Jumping Spider
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Magpie Moth
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A Katydid
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A fern: Austral Bracken
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Pig's Ear
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Pig's Ear
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Pig's Ear
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Trouble.

Sheep and a bird.

Neptune's Necklace, a brown algae.
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Radiate Limpet
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Denizens of a tidal pool

Common Rock Crab
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The tail end of a giant sea monster.
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Neptune's Necklace
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New Zealand Common Cushion Star
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Yellow Admiral
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Red Damselfly

New Zealand Red Admiral
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Tuatara
(Sphenodon punctatus)
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North Island Kaka
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North Island Kaka
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Spotted Top Snail
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White Striped Anemone
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White Striped Anemone
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