#Weka

[herpsandbirds]

requesting a weird rail roundup: White-Throated Rail, Weka, Spotted Rail, South Island Takahe?

Lets head into the marsh, I have a few friends for you...

Black Crake (Zapornia flavirostra), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Limpopo, South Africa

photograph by Thinus Van Staden

Black Crake (Zapornia flavirostra), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Limpopo, found in much of Sub-Saharan Africa

photograph by Mike Haworth

Australasian Swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus), mother with chick, family Rallidae, Western Australia

photograph by Matt Laughton

Andaman Crake (Rallina canningi), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, endemic to the Andman Islands of India

photograph by Dhanapal Arumugam

White-breasted Waterhen (Amaurornis phoenicurus), grabs a muddy mollusk, family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India

photograph by Savithri Singh

Weka aka Woodhen (Gallirallus australis), family Rallidae, order Gruiformes, New Zealand

photograph by JJ Harrison 

[vintagewildlife]

Weka By: M. F. Soper From: The Fascinating Secrets of Oceans & Islands 1972

[snototter]

A weka, or Māori Hen (Gallirallus australis) inspects stones in Aotearoa

by Gregory "Slobirdr" Smith

[syncarida]

The approaching Weka

[its-stimsca]

HI ITS ME IM BACK WITH ANOTHER REQUEST can you make a stimboard with gifs of new zealand birds pls? Like tuīs, kiwis, keas, kakapos, etc :D

Oh to be a gif of a New Zealand bird… that’s the dream!!

🦜 🌿 🦜 / 🌿 🦜 🌿 / 🦜 🌿 🦜

[annemoff]

[wondabarappa]

Weka Concepting

New goddess just dropped. I freaking love this creature.

[polwarth]

Weka on Rotora Island. These guys were everywhere!

[soundsofastar]

Can't even chirp anymore. Cus of

[aexploration]

[thetrueoverlordbear]

Looked for something recent that I'd find fun to cover, found this cold and groovy natori song, went at it like I'm trying to pose all the freaking time. #なとり #歌ってみた

[dr-iphone]

【GTC 2025】WEKA 擴展 NVIDIA 整合與認證，增強記憶體網格亮相

在最新的GTC 2025技術大會上，WEKA宣布擴展與NVIDIA的合作，並推出全新「增強記憶體網格」（Augmented Memory Grid），進一步優化人工智慧（AI）推理效能。這項技術預計將提升大規模AI模型的處理效率，為企業在AI發展上帶來新的可能性。 Continue reading 【GTC 2025】WEKA 擴展 NVIDIA 整合與認證，增強記憶體網格亮相

[cllnsllvn]

Mārahau

'Twas a very calm day today! I had sore feet from the hike yesterday, so I took it very easy this morning, hanging out in my room at the lodge, enjoying the view, and reading my book. Caught up with the fam with our weekly TV watch and then headed out to the beach for a couple hours! It was a beautiful afternoon and the water was so warm! It would have been really hot if not for the breeze coming in off the ocean.

Once I got home, I had some dinner out at my table on the terrace where I was joined by a buddy!

That little weka was poking around by that tree the whole time I was sitting outside ☺️

[drhoz]

#2535 - Gallirallus australis - Weka

AKA Māori hen, bush hen or woodhen

A chicken-sized omnivorous flightless rail formerly found across much of New Zealand. Now drastically limited in distribution, although some of the subspecies are doing better than others. We saw the butt of one disappearing into the undergrowth in the estuary at Greymouth.

Unsurprising, bounties declared on the birds didn't help their survival - they're known to snatch eggs and young birds, so anybody that lost young chickens to them was understandably irate - but it's not clear exactly what other pressures have wiped them out elsewhere.

They've been introduced to offshore islands as part of conservation efforts, but this has backfired somewhat when they start preying on the island wildlife.

Where the weka is still relatively common, they search around houses and camps for food scraps, or anything unfamiliar and transportable - particularly if it's shiny.

In October 2023 a two-person US team competing in a reality show were disqualified after one killed and ate a Weka, despite knowing they're now a protected species.

Whanganui Regional Museum, New Zealand.