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  • Denise Keegan says:

    Hi. We have several Kereru ( maybe as many as 4 pairs) in our local area. Seen most days. We are in Waterloo – eastern hills.. Norton Park Ave, Norton Park Grove, Wyndrum Ave and Rossister Ave. Have also seen them in Bauchop Road, Area code 5011 for all these s locations.

    • admin says:

      That is great news Denise – Hope you get to see more over the Great Kererū Count which starts tomorrow. The link to the page where you can add your kererū observations will become live later tonight ready for tomorrow count to start. Happy counting.
      Best
      Tony

  • Bill & Joy Chaplin says:

    Bill & Joy

    We live in Tawa. Next to us a small park with trees and bushes but it is in our trees we have seen 3 Kereru over at least the last 6 months
    Recently however, there is ONE Kereru left ..and it seems very lonely Perches on our balcony staring at our double glazed windows seemingly wanting to venture in ! Our “wild” plum tree seems to have been the “drawcard” when it was in blossom ….
    Over the last 5 years or so Kereru have paid us visits…3 have been the most at any one time

  • syreeta hewson says:

    Hi, I see kereru every day almost in the bush in kerikeri. They seem quite plentiful. One particular grove they eat off the trees and I’ve seen them there for years.

  • Adrian & Gemma Holloway says:

    We have had a pair feeding off a kowhai as well as an ornamental exotic fruit tree in our garden every afternoon over the past two weeks. We have had them here at this time of the year for several years now and they are a pleasure to see.

    • admin says:

      Hi Adrian & Gemma

      Nothing better than having regular kererū visitors If they are returning each year at this time they could have been successful in nesting in the past. So might be a breeding pair.

  • Alison McCulloch says:

    In the last week I have 2 really really big Kereru visiting our garden.
    We live in Lewis Street in Invercargill 8

  • Annette Cumming says:

    Hi. I’ve passed 2 Kereru this morning on Nottingham Street, Karori, Wellington while walking my dog. I often see up to 4 perched on the power lines and once, lined up on my guttering.

    • admin says:

      Great to see so many more around Wellington – I just love watching them on the power lines doing the side shuffle. The ones on your guttering were most likely have a drink 🙂

  • June Swain says:

    I have made friends with a pair of Kereru at the top end of the Karori Cemetery, over the last five years.
    They seem to enjoy the RNZ Concert programme in the lunch hour!

  • Gaye Robertson says:

    We saw x 1 kereru on a branch of a large kowhai eating blossoms and twigs at 3.30pm on August 20th 2017. We have seen x 1 kereru on same branch for the past 3 years. Location: Timaru Creek, Lake Hawea.
    Again on September 9th we saw 4 same time same place.
    On September 3rd, 2017 at 10.15am we saw x 1 kereru on top of a large pine tree in the rural end of lake Hawea township-the first one seen by folk who have lived there for 12 years.
    *** NOTE: I could not enter the correct date and time from your website for sightings so I am recording here

  • Marlyne Jackson says:

    Happy to see a Kereru revisiting our garden in Titirangi this morning
    (27 Sept) – same place as last time – which was a while ago.

  • Sandra Shand says:

    We have 2 adult and a juvenile. The pair have been around for a few years. This season we have noticed the Maggpie’s giving them a rough time. Chasing and scrapping with them. Today we have not seen the juvenile just the pair.

    • admin says:

      Hi Sandra

      Great observation. Once a young kererū successfully fledges it will stay close to both parents for up to two years as they show the youngster where and what to feed on. Once the two years are up the young juvenile will leave the parents to start its own journey, which can last more than 21 years.

  • Cathy White says:

    We have a friendly pair that fly in and out of our fruit trees and perch for hours on end in one tall tree – every day at 20 Woodills Road Akaroa. They often have a third one accompany them. I have also seen a large flock of about 12-15 playing in a ti kouka twenty metres from our trees. The pair and juvenile feast on the pear blossom and new leaves and later in spring they swallow whole green plums for hours on end. When the plums that are left ripen they leave them alone. They also fly to the gutters of our home to drink. They can get as close as a metre away from us as we are sitting on the deck and swoop down to fly under the fruit trees close to our heads when we are gardening. So entertaining. Our 5 yr old granddaughter has named the pair Toru and Rua!!

  • Jae says:

    Just watching an adult kereru swooping around from my office at Victoria University of Wellington (enjoying the windy updrafts!) Postcode 6012

  • We live in Whakatane, on the hill, next to bush and a tree filled neighbours garden. Kereru fly through our garden regularly and sit in the trees next door filling their crops. We’ve seen four around here. They eat from the Kowhai tree and one whose name I don’t know. The Tuis love the same tree.

  • We live in Whakatane on the hill near bush and next door to a tree filled garden. Four kereru fly through the garden and also sit in the trees filling their crops. They like Kowhai and an unknown tree which the tuis also enjoy.

  • Sarah says:

    Just seen a Kereu in the trees outside room 22 at Mercy hospital in Auckland…..just flew in to feed on berries….room has view into a big tree….

  • Dale Hikuroa says:

    Three or four in Phoenix palm on our section in Whakatane, feasting on seeds. First I’ve seen in two years

  • Dale Hikuroa says:

    Three maybe four feasting in Phoenix palm on our section in Whakatane. See plenty of tui but this was a joy for me

  • Mary says:

    Manurewa Botanical Gardens are loaded with Kereruu and Tui as all the spring blossoms and kowhai are in flower…
    The Kereru we watched and recorded were very fat and full, we watched them devouring and stripping a kowhai tree of most of the flowers…. the branches they were both perched on were almost snapping under the pressure of their weight…
    An absolute delight and pleasure to watch

  • Deborah Bell says:

    We live on the Otago Peninsula. We have had a pair of kereru return each year for the first 4/5 years we lived here. They would play one up man ship on a very high tree branch in our native area. Really fun to watch their little game. They came frequently during the summer, like low flying planes coming in to land. Now sadly only one has returned the last 5 years and favours the very tall kowhai tree at the end window of our bedroom. Our bedroom is on poles so I can virtually look at him on the same level. Have managed a couple of photos.
    Cheers Deborah

  • tracy ormond says:

    Hatuma, Central Hawkes Bay.
    We counted for the 22 Sept to the 1 October, 40 pigeons. Flying over our roof, feeding on tree lucerne, just being friendly when I am in the garden. Mostly there are four to six around at a time. The sightings were everyday. Can you please add them to the counts?
    cheers

    t

  • Robin Pearson says:

    Vinegar Hill , Waituna West Road saturday 30th Sept . 26 Kereru over a distance of 5 miles

  • Chris Corser says:

    We have kereru flying through our (Rangitikei) garden regularly. A definite sighting of one just sitting on a powerline by the house yesterday. We try to protect them with 4 Timms traps which catch any possums in the area. Sadly some stoats have turned up so we only hope this seasons chicks are ok.

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