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Observed wandering across the path among scrub and Manuka. The first one I’ve ever seen in the wild up close.

Update: DNA results confirm this as a Canterbury Grass Skink, Oligosoma aff. polychroma, clade 4.

Found by Okarito resident formally reported by DOC to the national herp database.

Middle of hillside paddock with calf high grass. Didn't want to catch him so. It greatest photos.

Approximately 150mm from nose to tail, dark green with tan stripes on back with pink belly, living in eroded volcanic rubble with tussock and shrub surrounding.

Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, Western Springs Park

Habitat: Small swampy pond (nearly dry).

Identification: Hyphydrus elegans (Montrouzier, 1860)

11.5 m long dead sperm whale on the beach
Ohaka heads, Whatipu beach, Waitakere Ranges

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A Kaka Kura or Red Variant at Zealandia

Hopefully this shows patterns better than previous pic

Gecko
Hoplodactylus species
Blue-Green eye