Can You Identify Our Mystery Bird?

August 26, 2010

This week we got a call from a neighbour, who reported an unusual bird hanging around their property. They thought the bird must be very hungry or injured, because it came quite close to them. The people were worried that a cat or dog might get it, so they captured it and brought it to us…. and none of us had any idea what it was!! We’d never seen a bird like this one before. It wasn’t a quail or a pheasant, but it looked like it might be from that family. It took us a bit of research to discover that this was a CHUKOR. The bird book says that they live in the South Island. Since our animal sanctuary is located in the north of the North Island, the next mystery is: How on earth did it get up here?!?!