An unusual sight on the beach today: a Karetai hurukoko | Cape petrel, probably exhausted — it didn't move when I came close but managed to get away from a small wave. 🐦
New Zealand status: Native; Conservation status: Naturally Uncommon.
![Gull sized bird with black head and black and white chequers on its body, sitting on wet sand.](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2378/2024/cape-petrel-01.jpeg)
![The bird has its wings spread as an incoming wave bubbles round its legs.](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/2378/2024/cape-petrel-02.jpeg)
I love simplicity and silence. I enjoy taking photos of birds. I also enjoy drinking tea — green, white, yellow, oolong. I live at Waikawa Beach in New Zealand, which I love, and strive to be an actively decent human being. Apparently the bizarre is normal now. Now 69, I'm super happy to be getting old — it means I'm not dead yet! 100% human (she / her). I joined the MB community on 05 January 2018. Follow me on Micro.Blog at https://micro.blog/miraz.
An unusual sight on the beach today: a Karetai hurukoko | Cape petrel, probably exhausted — it didn't move when I came close but managed to get away from a small wave. 🐦
New Zealand status: Native; Conservation status: Naturally Uncommon.