Michael Potts
Wildlife and Landscape Photography

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Flightless Weka

Flightless Weka

Location: Stewart Island. South Island. New Zealand.
Ref: MP196
From the gallery: New Zealand

The Weka is a flightless endemic, it lives in forest and scrub on both the North and South Islands. Often confiding, it feeds by flicking leaves aside with its bill to find seeds and invertebrates. It also feeds on beaches as here on Stewart Island.