Walter Lawry Buller. A history of the birds of New Zealand. Illustrations by J.G. Keulemans. 2nd edition. London: The author for the subscribers, 1888. Vol. 2 of 2.
Volume 2 of the second edition of Buller’s Birds is open at the white heron or kōtuku, a cosmopolitan bird whose sole breeding site in New Zealand is near Ōkārito in South Westland. The blue heron depicted is today better known as the reef heron, a rare native found chiefly in Northland (not to be confused with the closely related white-faced heron common in Dunedin’s waterways).
Walter Lawry Buller. A history of the birds of New Zealand. Illustrations by J.G. Keulemans. 2nd edition. London: The author for the subscribers, 1888. Vol. 2 of 2.
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