It was World Animal Day yesterday – a day to celebrate the amazing animals we share the planet with and to raise our voices for the creatures who cannot always defend themselves.
While I have posted about wrybills before (and the braided South Island rivers they live on), today’s images are from Miranda where they also spend part of the year. They are small birds and easy to overlook, but are great little characters with their quirky right leaning beaks and endearing personalities. After lying quietly down at a distance they wandered over and nestled down to sleep. I was surrounded by them! I hope these photos help you to fall in love with them and advocate for their protection. Flocks in flight form the most amazing murmurations – hypnotic pulsing ribbon-like movements that will have you spellbound – a subject for another post on a return visit. I’ve also included a picture of a ruddy turnstone that was happily hanging out with the wrybills – another wader needing our help.
