tiritiri matangi

 hi bloggers last week on thursday we went on a trip to tiritiri matangi to see  all the wonderful birds of new zealand we saw and new zealand robin and takahe and new zealand pigeon and a pukeko mopoko and a tui and some here is a link to go to the tiritiri matangi website click here now we got that out the way let's get back to the information about tiritiri matangi The land that became New Zealand began its drift away from the ancient continent of Gondwana over 60 million years ago, before the rise of mammals. The birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates of this new land evolved without mammalian predators, and many of its birds were fearless ground-dwellers. and Tiritiri Matangi Island was first isolated by the rising sea levels of 20,000 years ago, leaving a chunk of land three kilometres long and less than a kilometre wide, whose hard greywacke base resisted erosion by wind and sea, and whose soils supported a dense coastal forest. bye now blog ya later