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Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids (Order Orthoptera)Observer
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Body length approx 10mm
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Blewit (Collybia nuda)Observer
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Feint,but characteristic perfume of blewits. Growing under oak.
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Devil's-Fingers (Clathrus archeri)Observer
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A large colony in wood chip alongside the stream.
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Genus ChlorophyllumObserver
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Growing under Tasmanian Blackwoods, alongside Agapanthus. Cap 8cm diameter. Stem 12cm long. Cap and stem stain red when cut.
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Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris)Observer
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Found sitting on gorse beside recently poisoned nest. A drone?
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Amanita pekeoidesObserver
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Growing under mixed lowland beech / podocarp forest. The specimen was already disturbed when I found it, so I can't confirm whether a volva was present.
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Genus CalvatiaObserver
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Found on rough ground, alongside road, under Pinus radiata.Together with larger specimens up to 18cm diameter. Mature examples were a mass of rust brown spores.
Flesh white and firm with no noticeable smell. Surface covered with irregular patches formed from very fine fibres.
Initial impression was of Scleroderma citrinum, but white flesh and size excludes that possibility. Lycoperdon utriforme maybe?
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Northern Giant Petrel (Macronectes halli)Observer
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Length approximately 50cm. Observed from a kayak about 3m away. Bird seemed unconcerned about our proximity.
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Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies (Order Agaricales)Observer
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Cap 15mm dia with pronounced umbo. Found under gorse, pine and manuka.
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Waxcaps and Allies (Family Hygrophoraceae)Observer
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Growing under mixed, lowland, native scrub.
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Genus ClavariaObserver
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Appearance similar to Alloclavaria pupurea, but growing under mixed native scrub.
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Orange Pore Fungus (Favolaschia claudopus)Observer
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Cap 10mm diameter. Growing on dead whiteywood..
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Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)Observer
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Attracted by the light in the dining room huhu beetles were flying into the window. As they fell, stunned the possum would pick them out the air before they hit the deck.
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New Zealand Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus ssp. vagans)Observer
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Found alongside The Coastal Highway. It appears to have been hit by a vehicle.
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North Island Kākā (Nestor meridionalis ssp. septentrionalis)Observer
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... and Tui.
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Shining Cuckoo (Chrysococcyx lucidus ssp. lucidus)Observer
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Temporarily stunned after flying into window.
