Reef Heron

Reef Heron

Photo by Vandy Pollard

Gone Fishing: I watched this Allusive Reef Heron or Matuku Moana fishing in the rock pools at low tide for at least an hour. They are Native to New Zealand. According to NZ Birds they have a conservation status of Nationally endangered with only 300-500 birds in New Zealand remaining.

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.