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Wednesday 23 October 2013

Native Plant.

This showy megaherb is found on coastal cliffs, rock outcrops, on beaches just above the strand zone and in coastal forest openings. It favours the rear of boulder beaches where it grows among kelp drift and accumulated paua shells. The Chatham Island forget-me-not can be seen in Henga Scenic Reserve and at Kaingaroa Point.
This glossy-leaved megaherb is widely grown in nurseries and gardens throughout New Zealand and overseas. It is beloved as a garden plant in the Chathams.

This threats are Coastal development has recently destroyed the only known wild population of white-flowered plants. Grazing, trampling and rooting by domestic and feral animals and weed encroachment, especially by marram grass, are major threats to this species.


Fantail.

    This Fantail is mid to dark grey or grey-brown above, yellowish/orange below, with a dark band across the chest below a white throat, white markings over the eye, and (depending on the race) either white-edged or entirely white outer tail feathers.

It grows to 16 cm (6.3 ) in length, of which half is the tail, which, as the name implies, is often displayed fanned out.

This reveals that the outer tail feathers that are light and the centre ones are dark.

Some subspecies are found in a darker plumage, notably the "Black fantail" morph seen in up to 25% of South Island birds and less than 1% of North Island birds (it is completely absent from the Chatham Islands). The fantail is one of the birds that eat insects.I like fantail’s because they are not dangerous when they meet other bird’s.