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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 26/03/2025

southern elephant seals when they learn about climate change

a close-up of a southern elephant seal with its mouth open in a shocked expression

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 14/01/2025

the birds are enjoying this fruiting tōtara in the garden #birds 🪶

A kererū - a chonky pigeon with purple, green and white plumage, a red bill and red eye rings, looking face on to camera with a small orange fruit in its beak. It is sitting among green coniferous needles in a tree

A tūī - a dark iridescent bird with a scraggly white poi peeks out from behind green needle foliage. It has its curved beak open and is swallowing a small orange fruit

A kererū - a chunky purple, green and white pigeon with a red bill and red eye rings sits among needle foliage. Its beak is open as it is swallowing a small orange berry.

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 10/12/2024

feeling deeply today for all the gorgeous goofy greyhounds ❤️ and missing my boy terribly 😭

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 09/12/2024

i've been writing for @nzgeo.bsky.social for about 6 years now. imo it's a keystone species in the aotearoa media ecosystem. a home for uniquely nz longform tales, science yarns, stunning photojournalism. if you value this, please consider subscribing: www.nzgeo.com/stories/we-n...

A magazine double-page spread for an article called "The forgotten pandemic" with a photo of a forest canopy. I'm peeking over the top of the pages.

I'm holding a New Zealand Geographic magazine with a dog on the cover. My eyes are peeking over the top.

I'm smiling and holding up a New Zealand Geographic magazine with a glowy ultraviolet kea on the cover.

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 29/11/2024

dinosaurs 🪶 tūī / kākā / tuatara at 📍zealandia

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 20/11/2024

kia ora bluesky, i'm a writer & science communicator from Aotearoa. 📝 i write stories for @nzgeo.bsky.social 🎧 i help produce the Our Changing World podcast on RNZ 🦜 i have co-led Bird of the Year since 2022 lovely to be here 👋 here are some bird pics

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 20/11/2024

Lovely episode from @veronikameduna.bsky.social this week, reporting from the first Tairāwhiti Ngutukākā Festival 🌹 Ngutukākā is common in gardens but rarer than kākāpō in the wild. Community rewilding efforts are turning SH35 into a Crimson Highway www.rnz.co.nz/news/ourchan... #kikorangi #nz

A smiling woman wearing a black t-shirt with her dark hair tied back in a bun peeks out from behind a leafy green bush dripping with bright red flowers that are shaped like chilli peppers.

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 20/11/2024

just some punk penguin album covers 🤘🐧 (I had occasion to revisit my tawaki piki toka / eastern rockhopper pics when we covered them on Critter of the Week recently, excellent #birds) 🪶

black and white penguin with spiky yellow eyebrows, red eyes and pink beak sitting with flippers outstretched on a rock

Four black and white penguins with spiky yellow eyebrows, red eyes and pink beaks standing on a rock with their flippers outstretched

Three black and white penguins with yellow spiky eyebrows, red eyes, pink beaks and pink feet standing on a rock

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 15/11/2024

Male redback on the left in the small vial – he's about the size of a pinhead – and female redback in the larger jar on the right!

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 15/11/2024

Inside the Pūngāwerewere Workroom at Plant & Food Research... A team of scientists is designing a targeted trap that lures in males with 🕸️spiderweb silk perfume🕸️ Listen to hear about caring for 800 captive spiders & testing pheromone concoctions in the spider arena www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/ourc...

Glass door decorated with signs that read "Pūngāwerewere Workroom: Restricted Access" and two large dangling spider toys.

A man in a navy labcoat holds up a clear plastic jar with a spider inside it. He is standing in a lab in front of a bench stacked with containers covered in cloth, while another man in a white labcoat stands at the far end of the bench.

Close up of a black spider with a fat booty adorned with a bright red stripe. She is sitting on web.

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 19/01/2024

this kererū and its mate are collecting twigs to construct a nest in the tall tree outside my front door 🥰 they keep making soft little coos to each other 🥺 #birds

A green and purple pigeon that looks like it's wearing a white singlet stands on a branch with a twig in its red beak

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 10/11/2023

ah yes the garden gherkins 📷: Joel Knight CC BY-NC 4.0 inaturalist.nz/observations... / Steven Wallace CC BY-NC 4.0 inaturalist.nz/observations...

A green slug with a vein pattern on its body on a tree trunk

A close-up head-on shot of a bumpy translucent slug with two appendages that look like googly eyes on a bright green leaf

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 09/11/2023

We've had to delay the Bird of the Century winner announcement to Wednesday so we can deal with the literally hundreds of thousands of votes that flooded in this week. We have implemented a new email system and will soon be sending out verification emails to those who missed out earlier this week.

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 09/11/2023

So impressed with the pūteketeke pandemonium. It has been A Week for team bird of the century but it is all worth it for the BIRDS #BIRDS youtu.be/uVE1hBzHn3s?...

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 30/10/2023

The grief bird: The bittern’s eerie, booming call sounds like a lament, a tangi ringing across the marshes. Now more than ever, the bittern’s story is one of sorrow. This wetland bird that once flocked in groups 100 strong is nearing extinction. www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-... 📷: Craig McKenzie

A brown bird with long legs and a long neck and beak stalks through dewy grass and tussock

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 25/10/2023

sry Aotearoa there's one more important election you need to vote in - polls open at 9am on Monday at www.birdoftheyear.org.nz ✅

Vote for your Bird of the Century poster featuring chubby cartoon kererū, kororā and huia with vegetation and a green check mark. www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 24/10/2023

Once upon a time, raucous, stinking colonies of seabirds blanketed huge areas of NZ's mainland, each burrow & poo & eggshell helping fuel the forests. Those birds are gone now—but a new modelling tool gives a fascinating glimpse of what once was. www.nzgeo.com/stories/wher...

Birds flying low across grey-blue sea with the words 'Where the Seabirds Were'

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Ellen Rykers @ellenrykers.com · 24/10/2023

👋👋 oh how I have missed you and gorgeous Belle! Delighted to find you're here (and hello from Clay too)

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