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“We are all made by people who were also making themselves as they went.” For Mother’s Day I wrote about my mum, the colours she sees, the roads she has travelled, and the art of doing your best with what you have. Blog post linked below. #Mother'sDay #Mum #reflections #art #motherhood #Blog

They Do the Best with the Colours they have...

In our current world many traditional holidays have been grasped by consumerism and turned into something that can make money for some and t...

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Before he was the world’s conservation conscience, he was a safe doorway into wonder for one troubled nine year old child watching Life on Earth at 6pm on a Sunday night. My thank you to #SirDavid New blog post out now... #DavidAttenborough #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation #Earth

The World Was Bigger Than the Room I Was In AKA Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough!!

Sir David turned 100 on 8 May 2026 in the UK. The centenary celebrations have been huge: BBC specials, a Royal Albert Hall event, tree plan...

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Generations of us learned to look at the natural world differently because of Sir David Attenborough. Happy 100th birthday to a genuine legend and hero to me🌿 #DavidAttenborough #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation #Earth

Screenshot of a Google search for David Attenborough featuring animated wildlife decorations and a celebratory “Thank you Sir David 100 years” message across the page.

Here's #kakapo Rimu's cliff-top entrance. It's a narrow ledge and a long way down, so a very precarious place for a chick to first venture outside! With the chick found inside this nest, the number of chicks alive increased to 93, out of 106 hatched. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

Alison Ballance@ali-ballance.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Listen to the Kākāpō Files podcast to learn more about this year's record #kakapo breeding season, including the details of Rimu's cliff-top nest. #kakapo #kakapo2026 #conservation @ali-ballance.bsky.social

The mystery of Rimu's inaccessible cliff-top nest on Te Kakahu / Chalky Island has been solved! All is revealed in ep. 16 of the Kākāpō Files podcast. @kakapo @birds @conservation @digs.bsky.social www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/wild...

🎶 The birds are back in town… 🎶 #Kākāpō cam is back & everything feels right again 💚 Chicks had a full glow-up while we were gone…full feathers & knubby stump emerging tails! internet village, reporting for duty. #NewZealand #Conservation www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6vi...

Infrared webcam view inside a kākāpō nest cavity on Whenua Hou. Two well-feathered chicks sit close together against the right wall of the nest, facing slightly toward the camera. Their bodies appear rounded and densely feathered, with only small tail stubs visible. The foreground shows the bare, textured nest floor with scattered debris. A timestamp at the top right reads “2026-05-02 12:33:45,” and the top left label identifies “Rakiura Nest – doc.govt.nz.” The scene is dimly lit, consistent with night or low-light camera conditions.

Rizo had a perfect win/win. If he stayed, great. If he’d gone out on MrBeast night, it would have been the perfect gift for his brother. And then Rick Devens got another idol because of course he did. The man is basically a walking #suvivor idol magnet. And Cirie kept Cirie-ing! #Survivor50

#ANZAC Day has held a place in my heart for as long as I can remember. This morning, standing at Dawn Service with my husband in the cold and dark, I found myself wondering: why do we go? That question became this year's annual ANZAC blog post... #ANZACDawnService #kikorangi #remembrance

Why Do We Go? aka ANZAC Dawn Service 2026

ANZAC Day has held a place in my heart for as long as I can remember. This morning, standing at Dawn Service with my husband in the cold an...

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As Mum arrives the nest goes into full alert mode. #Kākāpō #Kakapo #conservation #WildlifeCam #Birds #NewZealand

Two fluffy juvenile kākāpō chicks inside a dim nest cavity, photographed by an infrared webcam at night. One chick stands in the foreground while the other peers over its shoulder, both suddenly alert as if they have heard something outside. Added speech bubbles joke that they think their mother, the “Food Lady,” has returned, shouting “Beaks up!”

Alison Ballance @ali-ballance.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Bumped into an old friend on Whenua Hou the day before yesterday, while I was working on the webcam. #kakapo #kakapo2026 #conservation #wildlife

Kākāpō action this week is about the chicks - all 94 of them. I've just spent a week on Whenua Hou, recording with kākāpō rangers as they work day and night to ensure the chicks survive and thrive. #kakapo #birds #conservation @digs.bsky.social www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/wild...

Kākāpō Files II 15 | Kākāpō Island Diary episode of Wild Sounds: Kākāpō Files II

Alison Ballance spends a week on Whenua Hou/Codfish Island, one of three kākāpō breeding islands. She follows rangers from DOC’s Kākāpō Recovery Programme as they go about their daily and nightly nest...

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Andrew Digby@digs.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Feeling grateful tonight, Nest CAM is back up PLUS we had digs.bsky.social do chick check AND he stayed after- generously sharing his #kākāpō knowledge with us. #NewZealand #Conservation & #kakapo benefit greatly from having people like him in our corner!

Have you been watching the #kakapo webcam? After a few power issues it’s back online. I’ll be at the nest in about an hour from now, so tune in then if you’re free! www.youtube.com/live/K_j3aaE...

Someone asked a simple Facebook question about #kākāpō fertility. I answered with what can only be described as an unsolicited mini-thesis. Have now escalated the situation further by turning the whole thing into a blog post. A normal response was available to me. (cam still down, can't you tell)

Fertility ≠ Hatching Success ≠ Chick survival

When the kākāpō live nest cam goes down for the weekend these are the kind of things that happen... poor unsuspecting kākāpō fans who foll...

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No sun, no charge, no cam. Weather 1, webcam 0. #Kākāpō #Kakapo #Wildlife #Birds #conservation #NewZealand

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Meanwhile, somewhere in a hollow tree on Whenua Hou, chunky feathered cam-hogging supervillians gather to hatch tonight's evil plan... #kakapo2026 #kākāpō #conservation #Wildlife #NestCam #NewZealand #kikorangi #birds

'She has lain forgotten': the Māori composer whose 110-year-old song features in Hollywood blockbuster

'She has lain forgotten': the Māori composer whose 110-year-old song features in Project Hail Mary

While it's fitting that 'Pō Atarau' was used in a story of intergalactic friend-making, Erima Maewa Kaihau's name became "detached" from the song, a Wellington academic says.

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This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record: - 256 eggs (252 in 2019) - 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019) - 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019). It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

A female kakapo on a nest facing the camera, with a young chick in front of her. Credit: Andrew Digby

#Kākāpō perspective: #Artemis II astronauts emerge through the hatch. Crops empty. Following heath checks they will be fitted with backpack transmitters, given names, & be officially added to the total population. #kakapo #splashdown #NewZealand #conservation #science #crossoverhumour

#Artemis II splashdown has happened… anyone else getting shiny Bonsly vibes? #splashdown #Pokēmon #Bonsly #NASA #Space #uncanny

Integrity reports 4 green crew members LOL.. hopefully not 🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮 #Artemis #safe #success

You are now watching the transition from: Human-controlled mission to Physics-controlled descent Stay with it - we’re about to cross into, arguably(?) (visibly?!), the most intense phase! #NASA #Artemis #exploration #hope

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

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💻 #WatchLive: Final stages of #Artemis II (NZ time 🇳🇿) 🧑‍🚀 10:00 Entry prep & final checks 🚀 11:33 Service Module separates 🌠 11:53 Reentry begins 🪂 12:03 Parachute deployment 💦 12:07 Splashdown Perfectly timed for a late morning of watching humans fall out of space ☕🌏 #kikorangi #Saturday #NASA

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

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@hankgreen.bsky.social walking thru #Artemis II photos & reflecting on #Apollo8 gives me #joy. Apollo gave us Earthrise “get me colour film!” Artemis also gave us an unplanned moment - a view so strange astronauts struggled to describe it.

Explaining the Most Important Artemis II Photos

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I may have missed out on FOTC tickets, but I did make it in time for whatever situation this is I choose to believe this is where I am meant to be. #HappyPlace #FOTC #kākāpō #chaoschicks #conservation #kikorangi

RNZ News Feeds @rnzrss.bsky.social · 6mo ago

AMAZEAMAZEAMAZE love that for everyone who is not me 😭 I would like to formally file a complaint with the universe The real “business time” was the 30 minutes tickets existed and I was not part of it 😭😭😭😭😭 #FOTC #FlightOfTheConchords #HiphopopotamusVsTicketmaster #RhymenocerosWouldHaveGotTickets

'Tiny backpacks because they are tiny frogs': Researchers track one of NZ's smallest frogs

The backpacks contained transmitters that weighed 0.5 of a gram.

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NASA | ESA Space Updates @nasaupdates.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#Artemis II - Special guest Astronaut ‘Nutella’ getting involved in breaking the Apollo record with its own flyby 😂🚀🌕

Flight Day 7 for #Artemis : Earthset. Far Side of the Moon. Long Solar Eclipse. Long distance call with #ISS The day for the #kākāpō chicks: had a nap. then another nap. then a brief moment of absolute nonsense. Progress comes in many forms. #conservation #kakapo #space #NASA

Artemis Daily Wrap: Flight Day 7

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