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Kotuku (Egretta alba modesta)

By From the Pentax *ist D SLR Camera of W Bruce Shanks FPSNZ ANZIPP MPS Matuwai

The story in Pictures of a Journey to Okarito, in Westland New Zealand to photograph the elegant Great White Egret at home.

A boyhood dream fulfilled.

As the Kotuku ( the Maori name for this bird ) was the emblem of Otahuhu College.

Here are the resultant images which gained two successful Fellowships. Two sets of 18 Digital Natural History images for the Photographic Society of N.Z. Honours system.

One set pertaining to the Fishing & Feeding techniques of this species. The other set from the Courtship and Nest behaviour, of feeding a young Egret.

Publish Date  November 14, 2008

Dimensions  Large Landscape  56 pgs  Premium Paper

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About the Author

Bruce Shanks
Matuwai  Manurewa, New Zealand
Born 1938 Educated at Helensville District High School & Otahuhu College Qualified as a Pharmacist 1959 Photographic Society of NZ Councillor 1970-75 Pioneer in home Colour Processing. Retired member of NZ Institute of Professional Photographers. Winner of many awards in both PSNZ & NZIPP Amateur Ornithologist Avid devotee of the digital age of Photography Tutor in Photography particularly in relationship to bird photography at Miranda Shorebird Centre

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