News & Tips
Five tips for photographing birds
March 29, 2018
It's not just a case of yelling ‘watch the birdie’ and hitting the button. That’s why we thought we’d share these top bird photography tips for capturing our beautiful native birds.
Grasshoppers, crickets and mealworms – oh my!
February 28, 2018
These crunchy critters are certainly a craze. There were so many requests for them that we expanded our range of dried insects to include grasshoppers and larger bags of mealworms and crickets. So what kind of pets are gobbling up these delicacies?
A closer look at our garden bird life
January 24, 2018
The Garden Bird Survey results from last year are out and we take a look at what's happening to bird numbers in Otago.
Identifying New Zealand birds
June 21, 2017
With the annual New Zealand Garden Bird Survey now under way, we thought it was time to put together our box of bird identification tricks. Here are our favourite tools, online and on paper, to help you recognise and record those birds.
Modelling appropriate feeding
May 24, 2017
When a recent development to the popular Minecraft game allowed users to feed cookies to birds, the reaction was swift.