Aorangi Island, Poor Knights

A small selection of images from a recent trip to Aorangi Island, Poor Knights group, Northland.

Thanks to the Department of Conservation for hooking me up with this trip!

Pig skull…from the last pig to be eradicated from the island

Aorangi rock platform

Aorangaia and Archway Islands, from Tatua Peak

Sphenodon punctatus (tuatara; male)

Anagotus turbotti (Turbott’s weevil) on Ngaio food plant

Dactylocnemis ‘Poor Knights’

Dactylocnemis ‘Poor Knights’

Pittosporum cornifolium and pollinator

Pittosporum cornifolium and pollinator

Oligosoma hardyi (Hardy’s skink)

Oligosoma oliveri (Marbled skink)

Oligosoma hardyi (Hardy’s skink)

Anagotus fairburni (Flax weevil)

Anagotus turbotti (Turbott’s weevil)

Pterodroma cookii (Cook’s petrel)

Oligosoma roimata (Aorangi skink)

Deinacrida fallai (Poor Knights giant weta)

Hoplodactylus duvaucelii (Duvaucel’s gecko)

Hoplodactylus duvaucelii (Duvaucel’s gecko)

Sphenodon punctatus (tuatara; male)

Aorangi rock platform

Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae (red-fronted kakariki)

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