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A few months ago I went to revisit Waharau Regional Park , this is from the lower link track where a family of turkeys strolled past while I was recording..
You can hear the gentle sound of the wind in the trees and the low level hum from the bees & insects, as well as the trickle of water from a slow flowing stream.

As usual, the following information is taken from the Auckland Regional Council site: http://tinyurl.com/waharau

Wildlife:
Sea and shore birds along the coast include spotted shags (parekareka), New Zealand dotterels (tuturiwhatu) and both species of oystercatchers (torea) while inland, kereru (wood pigeon), tomtits (miromiro), fantails (piwaiwaka), grey warblers (riroriro), tui and bellbird's (kormako) are found in the forest.

Native bush:
The regenerating kanuka-dominated forest on the lower slopes is home to a wide variety of plant species, from club mosses (pukohu), filmy ferns (manuka), ground orchids (tutukiwi) and liverworts, to coral lichens (pukoko) that give bushes a magical 'goblin-like' appearance.
Regenerating mixed kauri and hard beech (tawai) forest grows on the higher slopes beside plentiful tanekaha, rewarewa, hinau and towai. The nearby gullies are draped in tawa forest with emerging rimu, northern rata, kahikatea and totara.

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