{"id":40983,"date":"2023-04-13T06:30:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T18:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40983"},"modified":"2023-04-09T17:38:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T05:38:14","slug":"fun-with-friends-photos-6-7-from-marion-drolsbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/04\/13\/fun-with-friends-photos-6-7-from-marion-drolsbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Friends: Photos #6 & #7 From Marion Drolsbach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marion Drolsbach, translator extraordinaire \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n

I think Photo #6 might be my favourite in the series of photos taken by Marion Drolsbach<\/a> when she was in Aotearoa-New Zealand last year.<\/p>\n

Marion, as those who\u2019ve been following will know, is a book translator (English to Dutch) and we first met when she was translating The Heir of Night<\/em><\/strong><\/a> into Dutch.<\/p>\n

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The photos were taken at the mouth of a Canterbury braided river, and the Telimbras, in The Wall of Night<\/a> series, is also a braided river. (Hmm, wonder where that worldbuilding influence came from?! \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n

Photos #6 and #7 both show a tern flying. The rivermouth is home to both blackfronted (tarapirohe) and whitefronted terns (tara.) I believe this is tarapirohe, the blackfronted tern, but am by no means certain. All the terns look fabulous in the air, and Marion\u2019s photos really capture that.<\/p>\n

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The blackfronted terns are endangered, chiefly from human-introduced predators. But since the braided rivers are the only place they breed, efforts to turn endangerment around have to be concentrated in that environment. Relocation is not an option.<\/p>\n

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The whitefronted terms numbers are also decreasing, but not to the same extent as tarapirohe so are not classified as endangered.<\/p>\n

To read some of my reflections on predators, picked up in the comments, check out post #3 (and photos #3 and #4) on Ngutuparore<\/a>, the wrybilled plover.<\/p>\n

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Preceding Posts In the \u201cFun With Friends\u201d Photo Series:<\/h4>\n