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Pink robin plays hide and seek

November 4, 2017 Don Knowler

Everyone was seeing pink robins except me. They are my favourite bird, and in past years I have watched them rear families every year. Spring was never complete without them. This season, though, I had “lucked out’’, as birders describe missing a species that they should have seen. It appeared pink robins were everywhere. Three overseas birdwatchers told me so. A man from Denmark said he had spotted them along the Fern Glade Track on kunanyi/ Mt Wellington and two American … [Read more...] about Pink robin plays hide and seek

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