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Harrier chicks

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Harrier chicks

These three harrier chicks are begging noisily for food. The smallest chick is likely to become food for the larger ones. Harrier nests are a wide platform, usually in raupō, toetoe or other tall grass-like vegetation, but occasionally in trees.

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Gerard Hutching, Birds of prey – Swamp harrier, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/9984/harrier-chicks (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gerard Hutching, published 1 March 2009.