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Eyles’ harrier

Kērangi, around a 2 m wingspan, on a pole and turning into the wind.

Proposed
A pen-and-ink drawing of Eyles’ harrier in flight, wings spread, with a second version of the same bird worked with a Māori motif.
Eyles’ harrier — kērangi. Intended to turn into the wind on a pole.Trish Shirley

Where we are now

A drawing and a spot: 3.5 m by 2 m, mounted 3 m up on a heavy pole with an industrial swivel bearing so that it turns into the wind.

Why it is in the plan

The only one on the trail specified to move.

In deep time

Circus eylesi, kērangi. Much larger and chunkier than the Australasian swamp harrier through island gigantism, at around a 2 m wingspan — the biggest harrier known — and the swamp harrier is thought to have established only after it had gone.

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