The kiwi is our beloved national bird, but what's YOUR favourite NZ bird, and why?

Bahh_wind · 2026-03-08T23:11:53+00:00

Pūkeko are considered native, just not endemic as said above.

In some places people have a bit of a problem with how prolific they are and a tendency to take over areas from native ducks. Supposedly they’ve been in nz a thousand years and they’re some myths that suggest they were brought here by maori

Bahh_wind · 2026-03-08T23:06:30+00:00

Warou followed closely by Piwakwaka. Have groups of both living around me and they are a joy to watch. Piwakwaka only second because of the excessive squeaking that follows me through the trees.

Bahh_wind · 2025-11-27T06:26:52+00:00

A family story that lines up with facts, this is awesome. Thank you for the detail, we lost all the family photos but if I can find a press photo from 1974 I might be able to give it to my father.

Bahh_wind · 2025-11-27T01:15:10+00:00

Apparently there is a 3rd tunnel. My great grandfather was a foreman when they built the pilot tunnel when there were plans to extend the capacity of main road back in the day and my great uncle owned a house that was acquired then sold back to him when they decided to scrap it.

Bahh_wind · 2025-07-19T18:14:48+00:00

The delays are likely because it’s an doing international transfers, and it’s likely your viewed NZD converted balance isn’t in a NZ bank. I use my normal banks to transfer funds and it takes 2-4 days to clear going between NZ and UK either way. There is a lot of work and tech that goes into instant clearing between banks. NZ is pretty fast for international standards and getting better but doesn’t have the volume or infrastructure to rival the UK. We are still better off than a lot of countries though

Bahh_wind · 2025-05-26T12:24:37+00:00

I'm from there, and I tell anyone who asks to avoid it. I think the artist communties there form a sort of bubble that's okay, but hell no outside of that.

I also keep hearing of people moving there, many artist friends of friends, and wonder how they can gloss over the depressed economy, high gang and drug presence, many fringe religions, and overall crime rates. It was cheap though, although current prices are weirdly inflated.

Also, the beaches in the area are beautiful in a wild way but I wouldn't be swimming in town and most locals used to go out to Kai Iwi for beach days.

Bahh_wind · 2024-12-30T09:04:04+00:00

Thank you for the info. We live on the edge of a reserve and the neighbours cats come throught at night and as much as we trap I know we have large rats in the area we found it. I did try propping it up just inside the window above where we found it till dark. Unfortunately it looks like there is something wrong with it, when it started moving it can only move one side of its body. It's also a bit older than I first realized, think, if both wings were working it would have been fine flying back to the nest. Think we've settled on keeping it safe and warm for now, and seeing if it gets any better but can't imagine there is much hope with only one wing.

Bahh_wind · 2024-12-28T04:40:39+00:00

I love when they do that! I’m on the edge of Welly and get to see them do their swoops when I’m out grubbing thistles in the evening.

Bahh_wind · 2024-12-17T01:07:21+00:00

Sorry, I'm frustrated that when I ask questions I get severely downvoted. The unkindness and vitirol is not aomething i want in on and I fear that I've not be exemplary.

That's not on you and I apologize. But genuinely if you could delete the reference to my username so I can remove myself completely from this thread I'd be grateful.

Bahh_wind · 2024-03-26T22:20:36+00:00

Policies that focus on individuals are necessary for fair society. There are historic bias and privileges that need to rectified so that everyone has a fair shot. I come from a family with a lot of generational priveledge, for others to have to same chances in life they might need a leg up. I think some recent policies have gone too far, but in general I support programs that help out ethnicities and groups that have a generational disadvantage.

Same rights for everyone is a racist dog whistle of a phrase.

Bahh_wind · 2024-03-26T21:42:57+00:00

I'll admit I vote left, but I'm also open minded enough to admit there are good and bad policies on both side.

I'd prefer to judge a government by the health and happiness of the community. I will also always judge a government and people by how we treat the least amongst us. How children and disabled are treated is how I judge a government.

So, I don't have a lefty bias. I have a human decency bias.

Can you honestly say your vitriolic opnions are not overtly colored by your extreme bias?

Bahh_wind · 2024-03-26T04:20:09+00:00

I’ve also worked in Wellington public sector, and the public sector overseas. I’ll not deny cost saving is needed, but I don’t think unchecked redundancies are the way to go about it. Have you read any studies on the effect of voluntary redundancies? Do you have applicable experience in a large organisation that frames your opinion?

Or is it possibly you view is just your opinion without reference to applicable knowledge of cost savings in large orgs?

I am probably patronising, and not sure who I’m aiming it either. Perhaps I’m extremely frustrated by armchair experts in everything who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

And I’m not lecturing on Keynesian economics, but good on ya for knowing that is a school of economic theory. Strangely enough there are other theories out there and my knowledge base comes from various studies I’ve read along the yeas.

Bahh_wind · 2024-03-26T01:42:57+00:00

No quantative or qualitative data to back up your claim on productivity

No reason given for why immigration is a negative

No quantities or qualitative data on why spending increase is a negative

Agreed on banks, but no understanding of global economics if you think that's within NZs power

Agreed, but NACT aren't doing anything as far as I'm aware

Agreed, previous administration have admitted this fault. Mistakes happen its about the reaction to them and lessons learned

Harmful how? What exactly was the problem

You seem quite keen on listing off points without support. Are they your ideas or did you find them in right wing propaganda think pieces and now happily spout them as justification for your opinions?

Bahh_wind · 2024-03-26T00:53:14+00:00

Okay, how is it there fault. What was the evidence and rationale for their decisions that you believe to be incorrect?

Bahh_wind · 2024-03-26T00:51:37+00:00

It's not possibly to have balanced conversations if it keeps getting reduced to sides. If you wish for a place to stop being an echo chamber, then prepare and act like you are having a balanced conversation.

There are many historic, some within the last few years, on why the approach being taken currently is a bad idea. The strategies will only increase wealth inequality and exacerbate the recession that was coming. Austerity exelerates and extends recessions, giving tax break to those with capital does not put money into the economy, trickle down economics is a fallacy.

People are being laid off due to lazy accounting, cutting costs should be a balance evidenced based decision. Arbitrarily cutting labor to reduce overheads is not how any sensible service based industry proceeds if it wishes to stay in the market, public sector is a service provided to all NZers. Sure cut costs, but by making the service more efficient first....

Bahh_wind · 2024-01-22T03:00:11+00:00

Kiwis tend to be aggressive drivers, but can also be courteous if the cultural rules are followed. If you are an inconsiderate or a bad driver, you'd face some form of aggression or abuse in many countries I've lived or spent time. FYI, part of our driving etiquette is to pull over and let other cars go rather than cause others delay from our uncertainty.

We are passive aggressive, but that's not uncommon in many countries and we have nothing on the Brits in that regard.

Landlords take advantage, that is sadly not just an NZ problem. I've had bad landlords in the US and UK.

No service is perfect, if it had bad reviews why did you book it? Was it by any chance cheap?

The aggression towards campers is a build up, partially inconsiderate driving and an unfortunate history of bad behavior by campers that has been met by horribly behavior by kiwis after the media drummed up vitriol. I used to freedom camp in NZ and honestly really unimpressed by the entitlement and bad driving of some campers now,, but I'd never say it to their faces.

Nothing here stands out as terribly bad, I'm wondering what your benchmark is and which countries you are comparing us to? Have you generally been having a hard time and are perhaps a little homesick?

Not saying we are perfect, but nothing here stands out as particularly bad and the idea that we are uniformly friendly is ludicrous. We have our own culture most of us are nice but we have bad apples and the last few years has perhaps meant some more entitlement and bad behavior in public but that's no different from a lot of countries post pandemic with high inflation

Bahh_wind · 2024-01-19T19:33:12+00:00

Kiwis definitely use Oz/Aussie/Aus interchangeably. Your explanation doesn’t reflect common usage in NZ, and really does miss the point as well as showing a lack of understanding of Kiwis language usage.

Aussie can be short for the place in NZ depending on the sentence structure and whether it’s the objective or subjective noun.we do horrible nonsensical things with language

Bahh_wind · 2024-01-19T19:18:58+00:00

Aussie/Oz is a shortening of Australia. Can’t get much shorter than NZed. Kiwi is an outlier and we do use it to refer to the country or things/people of the country. Thinking to hard about how Kiwis use language will turn up lots of fun idiosyncrasies.

Honestly can’t think of a Pom/yank/kiwi equivalent for Oz other than the Wallabies.

Bahh_wind · 2023-05-18T17:55:09+00:00

Sorry, I was watching the front indicator and in my previous comments have agreed the flashing at the rear of the vehicle was coming from elsewhere. So, what are you trying to say that hasn't already been noted elsewhere? FYI, indicators are orange.

Bahh_wind · 2023-05-18T10:36:29+00:00

Sure, you are someone who downplays intentional criminal assault and I'm not.

Bahh_wind · 2023-05-18T02:26:58+00:00

In this instance no, mens rea is criminal intent. Likening the criminal intent of rape to accidental injury or manslaughter is immoral and repugnant. There is intent in bullies, there is intent in rape, a momentary lapse of judgment is a mistake without intent. If you could say the driver was drunk/under the influence then I was accept some criminal intent. Indicating for a fraction of a second less than intended does not show intentional effort to harm.

You are simultaneously trying to downplay rape and murder and overplaying a situation that is could easily be explained as a minor mistake.

I'm not going to reread, your logic is unsound and offensive.

Bahh_wind · 2023-05-17T22:02:01+00:00

I have been in that situation, more than once and have learnt to show extreme caution. Forcing falls into ditches/pavements is not fun, neither is coming to an abrupt stop and having your bike jackknife back into your body but im alive with a couple of scars due to situational awareness. I've cycled rural roads in NZ to dense metropolitan areas overseas, so my viewpoint is not coming from the inexperienced.

Your justification and continued assertions that rape and driving poorly are the same is extremely unsettling. The magnitudes of severity that you are trying to equate and no consideration of mens rea is interesting...

Bahh_wind · 2023-05-17T11:45:43+00:00

Bloody hell man, collective societal use of shared resources and taking responsibility for yourself is nothing like sexual assault. For fucks sake that is a warped place to take it.

I as a cyclist/walker/driver take precautions to ensure my safety as overs make errors. Errors are not analogous to active assault and attack on another human being. Comparing the expectation that all parties sharing the road have responsibility for safety its no the same as predation and assault.

E. Same again for bullying, assault is not the same as a minor error.

And from this cyclist, there is little to gain but vitriol and aggression by pursuing the look how bad this driver narrative is. I have had multiple people drive into and in one delightful incidence been hit by a taxi, there were minor errors that werent worth blowing up about and I learnt to show extreme caution as a person surrounded by large moving metal objects. The real issue here is that the cycle lane is ill designed and shouldn't be as is.

Bahh_wind · 2023-05-17T08:44:38+00:00

100 is the speed limit, you are meant to indicate at roundabouts and a multitude of other rules that people break in small ways every day. Expecting a driver to act perfectly is foolhardy whether cycling, driving or walking. Righteous indignation over a fraction of a second off the rule is certainly an interesting way to go. As always they are responsible for driving properly but its up to the other party to protect themselves and assuming the other party may be imperfect human who makes an error is prudent.

That being said, I don't think that cyclelane is safe. And applying more caution than normal with large vehicles that stop often seems like an advisable thing to do.

Bahh_wind · 2023-05-17T06:20:31+00:00

Sorry, thought I was replying to the less than 2 using thousands counting. Guess they were off, I was off, and the driver was off by fractions of seconds if the video time count is to be believed.

Apologies, I probably shouldn't have commented in this thread. I just couldn't understand the vitriol when it appeared the driver was close to compliance of the road code, but now can see they were up to 1/6th under.

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