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Post #621136 by Club Nouméa on Mon, Jan 16, 2012 5:07 PM

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I finally got some decent photos of some local pukekos recently.

Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukeko

(I didn't know that these birds also live in Australia, PNG and Indonesia...)

A colony of these birds live along the stream across the road from my place. Back in March, one got hit by a passing car and it took shelter in my garden. I called in Bird Rescue to take it to the vet, but unfortunately it did not survive:

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