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    30 July 2019 | POSTED BY Deborah Clark

    Churchgoers See Rare New Zealand Bird

    White Heron visits Rangiora Latter-day Saint meetinghouse grounds

    Worshipers at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Rangiora, New Zealand, were delighted to see a rare white heron, or kōtuku, in their meetinghouse grounds on Sunday 28 July.

    Gert Hendriks, a local Latter-day Saint, noticed the bird and recognized it as the bird he has looked for over many years.   

                

    "I went to the West Coast as a young fella to see them and I didn't see one,"  Gert Hendriks told Christchurch newspaper, The Press.

    "I have never seen one in my whole life and then one pops up in Rangiora."

    Read more at Stuff.co.nz.

    Gert's wife, Wendy Hendriks, snapped a photo of the bird before it flew off.

      

      

    There are approximately 200 white heron in New Zealand living in wetlands and estuaries.

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