Category: everything else

• 08-11-2023

  Birds of the Years

  

  In my suburban South-East Auckland upbringing, birds unique to Aotearoa lived in non-fiction books. If there were birds on the playground, they were seagulls. Three-and-a-half kilometres, as the gull flies, between my primary school and the nearest beach.  The land had been farmland until suburban sprawl needed to extend and stretch further. Once, it was…