{"id":1716,"date":"2023-07-01T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2025-05-26T18:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T06:57:56","slug":"ruru-seen-at-kendalls-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"Ruru seen at Kendalls Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been reading up on ruru, after a friend shared this photo of the ruru they saw recently at Kendalls Bay.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/ruru-at-Kendalls-Bay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1717\" width=\"605\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/ruru-at-Kendalls-Bay.jpg 950w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/ruru-at-Kendalls-Bay-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/ruru-at-Kendalls-Bay-768x894.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wondered why it was visible in the daytime, and also whether they need large old trees with holes for their nests.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently they hunt mainly in the early night and early morning, and sometimes at dusk and dawn, particularly in bad weather. And they nest in any tree large enough to have hollows).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some excellent recordings and photos&#8230;.including one in Hillcrest, and one in Mairangi Bay&#8230;at&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neighbourly.co.nz\/c\/9DShwv626cj4roJgNVRK22L5yerox1IpQCksWoP0YKCV3INFbmH9989KBNXLL2IIjuKFiimsgdEPjIfoTJPLULaB3JjmFicajjXBWEyRaEDxLv2Rx5545WP6d9fuu42ZjdKuJWXQ\">ebird.org&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2557\" src=\"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/SVRH-kereru-in-kawakawa_0812.JPGsuper-CU-copy-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/SVRH-kereru-in-kawakawa_0812.JPGsuper-CU-copy-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/SVRH-kereru-in-kawakawa_0812.JPGsuper-CU-copy-4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/SVRH-kereru-in-kawakawa_0812.JPGsuper-CU-copy-4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/SVRH-kereru-in-kawakawa_0812.JPGsuper-CU-copy-4-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/SVRH-kereru-in-kawakawa_0812.JPGsuper-CU-copy-4-1536x1534.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/SVRH-kereru-in-kawakawa_0812.JPGsuper-CU-copy-4-2048x2046.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/SVRH-kereru-in-kawakawa_0812.JPGsuper-CU-copy-4-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/wp-content\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/2023\/07\/SVRH-kereru-in-kawakawa_0812.JPGsuper-CU-copy-4-1320x1319.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading up on ruru, after a friend shared this photo of the ruru they saw recently at Kendalls Bay.&nbsp; I wondered why it was visible in the daytime, and also whether they need large old trees with holes for their nests.&nbsp; Apparently they hunt mainly in the early night and early morning, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/?p=1716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ruru seen at Kendalls Bay&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[31,32,34,33],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-watch","tag-fauna","tag-ruru","tag-sighting","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northshorewilds.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}