Blogger: Campaign Manager for the Black Fronted Dotteral and Lower North Island Field Officer, Aalbert Rebergen. Last year I championed an obnoxious, loud-mouthed arriviste – the Spur Winged Plover – in the Bird of the Year poll and came, well, bottom of the pops. In what one might consider to be a foolishy reckless move, […]

Blogger:  Forest & Bird’s Lower North Island Field Officer Aalbert Rebergen Avian citizenry in this country is a mind-boggling, byzantine thing – something that is given and then snatched away at the whim of government based on fickle, flimsy criteria. Take for example – the rook – an introduced bird that was brought here to control insects and […]

Guest Blogger: Campaign Manager for the Masked Lapwing & Field Officer for Forest & Bird, Aalbert Rebergen I’m not surprised that the spur-winged plover, or better: “masked lapwing” as it is called in Australia and the rest of the world, receives little mention in the ‘polls’ or receives praises from our VIPs. Some may think […]