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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  1989 - 1985
Kingfishers lay four or five white eggs and normally raise only one family a season.
The spotted shag, called by maori parekareka, is only one of a good number of endemic shags.
As the breeding season starts both sexes sprout two fl crests, one on the forehead and the other on the nape.
stamps.nzpost.co.nz /NR/exeres/0AB85A10-E963-41B8-8870-571ADE2F9D4E.htm   (1683 words)

  
  Growing Plants and People
The trust is trialling a traditional growing method using hay, grass, sand and dirt in wooden boxes.
Known as parekareka, the process is achieving good results in a short time.
The little shed used as a nursery houses some inventions of its own, with a table that allows workers to scoop out soil and compost from two holes in the wall linked to feeders outside.
www.employmentmatters.net.nz /story-textonly.asp?id=174   (397 words)

  
 TOWtranscript
It was however the implementation of cooking utensils like pots, tea pots and Dutch ovens that would change our cuisine culture in a big way.
A typical diet at my home would consist of the traditional boil up, - wild pork, corned beef with either puha or watercress, Tamahou or Parekareka potato, kumara, or pikopiko, or kamokamo.
The Sunday roast, a national treasure would always be accompanied with roasted vegetables notably the pumpkin, kumara, kamokamo tails.
www.epurohands.com /TOWtranscript.html   (2629 words)

  
 Spotted Shag Information
The Spotted Shag or Parekareka (Phalacrocorax punctatus, also occasionally called the Spotted Cormorant) is an attractive species of the family Phalacrocoracidae found only in New Zealand.
Currently classified as Phalacrocorax punctatus, is sufficiently different in appearance from typical members of the genus Phalacrocorax that it has in the past been placed in a separate genus, Stictocarbo, along with one other species, the similar Pitt Island Shag.
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www.bookrags.com /wiki/Spotted_Shag   (217 words)

  
 Shags - Yellow-footed shags - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
The pale grey front and light brown back and wings differ from the more common fl and white shag colours.
The Māori name is parekareka, and in Canterbury they are locally known as ‘flip-flaps’, from their laboured take-off from the water.
Spotted shags are of medium size – 70 centimetres long and weighing 1.2 kilograms.
www.teara.govt.nz /EarthSeaAndSky/BirdsOfSeaAndShore/Shags/4/mi   (327 words)

  
 Kiwi Aircraft Images: Boeing 737
Arrived in New Zealand on November 9, 1993 and was registered to Air New Zealand on November 15.
Went into service on November 21, 1993, named 'Parekareka'.
Chartered by Boeing as a Demonstrator to Japan in May 1976.
www.kiwiaircraftimages.com /737.html   (3841 words)

  
 Dunedin and the Otago Peninsula   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Pictures from a sightseeing tour through the city and a walk the next day (with more sun).
Saw seagulls, fur seals, little shags (Kawau-paka) and spotted shags (Parekareka), Royal Albatross, yellow-eyed and little blue penguins on a trip to the Otago Peninsula.
For more information, maps and pictures, see e.g.
odur.let.rug.nl /~redeker/travel/NewZealand2002-2003/NZ_South_Island/Dunedin.htm   (221 words)

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