Showing posts with label Southland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Southland. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 May 2024

Dead Chatalot (Sperm Whale) in New Zealand

2024, May 5 or 6. New Zealand, South Island, Oreti Beach, Southland. 15-meter cachalot. Foveaux Strait, north of Stewart Island. The whale was mutilated by criminals, who acquired the lower jaw. See the posts below on New Zealand meteor activity. 

DOC and iwi seek info on stolen whale jawbone: Media release 13 May 2024

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Mass bird deaths in New Zealand seven days after sonic boom

2024, April 22. New Zealand, Lake Wānaka, Dublin Bay. 100 dead birds, including 85 paradise shelducks, on the shore of Lake Wānaka, and in a nearby paddock a dead black swan, nine Canada geese, three paradise shelduck, and a mallard.

Dead paradise shelducks litter the shoreline at Dublin Bay yesterday. Photo: Otago Fish & Game

Mystery as 100 dead birds found in Wānaka | Otago Daily Times Online News (odt.co.nz)

Sonic Boom heard after meteor.

2024, April 15. New Zealand, South Island, Otago and Southland. Time: 08:17 UT, 20:30NZST. Travelling N.N.W. Sonic boom heard (Delayed).

Meteor Airburst off the coast of Brazil

2025, September 9. South Atlantic, 77km off the coast of Brazil in Ceará. Airburst. Time:17:49:10UT, 14:433 time zones. Coordinates: (2.3S, ...