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New Zealand Tag

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2 April 2025
New Zealand

New Zealand’s South Island March 2025

Proof that you can add to your mammal list while pretending to enjoy scenery and historic castles.

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19 October 2024
AustraliaNew Zealandwhalewatching

Mammals of Australia Part 6 of 6: Sea Mammals (including New Zealand)

Hi people, My biggest adventure of my life, cruising throughout Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia in search of (mostly) birds and mammals! I drove an approximate 47.000 km i

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16 June 2024
Lesser Short-tailed BatMystacinidaeNew ZealandNorth islandShort-tailed bat

RFI New Zealand Lesser Short-tailed Bat

Hello everyone, There’s a wonderful post on this species from 2019 on this site but I am curious if there may be any other ways to encounter this species unobtrusively on the

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23 December 2022
Australasia
FijiNew CaledoniaNew ZealandVanuatu

New Trip Report: New Zealand, New Caledonia, Vanuatu & Fiji cruise

Here’s a great report, with some mega cetaceans, that could make for essential reading if you are trying to avoid certain relatives on Christmas day. New Zealand, New Caledon

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21 December 2018
Australasia
New Zealand

New Trip Report: Sydney to (and around) New Zealand Cruise

Steve Anyon-Smith’s latest trip report with some interesting cetaceans. Tasman Sea Cruise, 2018: Steve Anyon-Smith, 2 weeks & 12 mammals including Arnoux’s and Cuvi

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8 September 2018
Australasia
New Zealand

New Trip Report: New Zealand

New Zealand, 2018: Valentin Moser, 10 days & 6 species including Hector’s Dolphins and New Zealand (Hooker’s) Sealions. Jon

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14 February 2018
Australasia
AustraliaNew South WalesNew Zealand

New Trip Report: The Tasman Sea

And here’s a another report of a New Zealand cruise, this time from Sydney to New Zealand’s north islands. Tasman Sea, 2018: Steve Anyon-Smith, 10 days & 8 species

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13 February 2018
Australasia
AntarcticaNew Zealand

New Trip Report: New Zealand’s Subantarctic Island

Some great marine mammals on this (primarily birding) trip. Subantarctic Islands, 2017: Jesper Hornskov, 3 weeks & 15 species including Hourglass Dolphin, Southern Bottlenose W

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7 August 2016
Australasia
AustralasianNew Zealand

New Zealand

I spent a long weekend in New Zealand in October 2003 during which I managed to see all but one of New Zealand’s specialty mammals. It’s a pretty country but I found some of th

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  1. Lennart Verheuvel on Spotted: Beluga in the Netherlands28 January 2026

    Yeah, I read about the Russian spy Beluga. Fortunately there are no indications this one has been messer with. An…

  2. JanEbr on Spotted: Beluga in the Netherlands28 January 2026

    Well the Russian spy Beluga died over a year ago, so that one it clearly isn't, which helps. I know…

  3. Lennart Verheuvel on Spotted: Beluga in the Netherlands28 January 2026

    Where could it have escaped from?

  4. JanEbr on Spotted: Beluga in the Netherlands28 January 2026

    What is the risk of it being an escapee or even this weird supposedly Russian ... spy whale? :) I…

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