Sunlight hits Dunedin's Ross Creek Reserve yesterday afternoon. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIENA South Island robin has been photographed at Dunedin's Ross Creek Reserve for the first time in recent memory, offering hope predator control work can attract more native birds into the city. A South Island robin, one of which was recently spotted at Ross Creek. He had not seen a robin in the area in his 20 years of walking through Ross Creek. When asked how recently the birds were found in the reserve area you would be talking "ancient history", he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 18, 2019 16:30 UTC