It’s not hard to see a link between dinosaurs and modern birds when you live in New Zealand. This feels especially true when watching pukekos with their fierce looking beak, beady eyes, and T-Rex type posture.
This pukeko had a baby in tow. Which perhaps explains the glare on mum’s face (or maybe pukekos always look like that).
Of course it is much harder to imagine the baby pukeko as a fierce predator, we don’t tend to think of dinosaurs as ridiculously fluffy!
The animals of Christchurch 