Red-billed gull

Red-billed gull

Photo by Vandy Pollard

According to Kaikōura Wildlife Hospital 'Red-billed gull colonies are collapsing across New Zealand. Red-billed gulls have three main breeding colonies - Three Kings Islands, Mokuhinau Islands, and Kaikōura Peninsula. At two of them, populations have collapsed. The largest remaining and fastest declining colony is Kaikōura.’

Vandy Pollard - Excio Gallery
I’m a photographer living on the South Coast of Wellington New Zealand. with a passion for New Zealand birds, many of them with a conservation status of at risk.