RARE BIRD.
ARCTIC WANDERER.
DISCOVERED AT HASTINGS
TWO PREVIOUS SPECIMENS
A strange bird, which was found at Hastings and sent to the Auckland War Memorial Museum, lias been identified hy Mr. R. A. Falla, ornithologist ori the Museum stair, as a red phalarope. It is a wanderer from the Arctic, and the third specimen found in New Zealand. The bird is a rich chestnut red in colour and about half the size of the godwit. Its native homo is Siberia and
Alaska, and as its feet are half-webbed it is able to spend much of its time at sea. It belongs to the wader type and is also known as the sea snipe. The specimen examined by; Mr. Falla was in full nesting plumage. The two previous specimens of the red phalarope were both found in Canterbury, the first in 1883.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 162, 11 July 1934, Page 5
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141RARE BIRD. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 162, 11 July 1934, Page 5
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