{"id":40862,"date":"2023-02-23T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40862"},"modified":"2023-03-02T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:48:05","slug":"fun-with-friends-photos-3-4-from-marion-drolsbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/02\/23\/fun-with-friends-photos-3-4-from-marion-drolsbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Friends: Photos #3 & #4 From Marion Drolsbach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marion Drolsbach, translator extraordinaire \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

Just a reminder in case you\u2019ve missed instalments #1<\/a> and #2<\/a>, but this post series is featuring photos taken by Marion Drolsbach when she visited NZ late last year.<\/p>\n

Marion is a book translator and we e-met when she translated The Heir of Night <\/em><\/a>into Dutch. She is also a keen photographer and the photos were taken at the mouth of one of Canterbury\u2019s many braided rivers.<\/p>\n

As mentioned last time, I particularly love the bird life we saw that day \u2013 \u00a0and today\u2019s little guy is one of NZ\u2019s most endangered birds, the wrybill plover or ngutuparore. Its most distinctive feature is the \u201cwry\u201d or laterally-curved bill, which always bends to the right. I understand it is the only bird in the world with such a bill \u2013 if you enlarge, you should see the bend.<\/p>\n

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Wrybill plover; ngutuparore<\/p><\/div>\n

The wrybill is a wading bird and lives and breeds in the shingle braids of Canterbury\u2019s rivers, which makes it particularly vulnerable to NZ\u2019s introduced predators (e.g. cats, dogs, mustelids, and rats) \u2013 and of course the collateral damage of humans themselves.<\/p>\n

I love seeing them in lagoons and riverbeds in exactly the way Marion has captured in these photos. Yet in addition to the intensification of adjoining land and water use, the transition of rivermouth communities from holiday homes to permanent residents (as people seek cheaper places to live) also means a proliferation of dogs and particularly cats (which are allowed to roam more freely) so I fear the pressure on these unique and already endangered birds is only going to increase.<\/p>\n

Despite that gloomy note, I hope you enjoy your encounter with ngutuparore.<\/p>\n

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Check out the feet!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a reminder in case you\u2019ve missed instalments #1 and #2, but this post series is featuring photos taken by Marion Drolsbach when she visited NZ late last year. Marion is a book translator and we e-met when she translated The Heir of Night into Dutch. She is also a keen photographer and the photos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40862"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40890,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40862\/revisions\/40890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}