New records reveal the first sighting of fan-tailed cuckoo in New Zealand, suggesting migration patterns of bird species.
The following notes include the re-identification as an Indian Waterhen (Gallinula chloropus indica) of a specimen in Canterbury Museum believed to be of New Zealand origin (formerly identified as an Australian Black-tailed Waterhen, Tribonyx ventralis), together with new records based on specimens sent in to the Museum of the Fan-tailed Cuckoo (Cacomantis pyrrhophanus) (first New Zealand record) and Fork-tailed Swift (Apus pacificus).
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