25 Mar 2021

Alison Ballance retrospective 1: shags & eagle rays

From Our Changing World, 9:07 pm on 25 March 2021

As Alison Ballance prepares to stand down as host of Our Changing World, she looks back at the more than 1,000 stories she has made and revisits some favourites.

Spotted shags (top) and an eagle ray.

Spotted shags (top) and an eagle ray. Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance

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This week’s theme is wildlife spectacles ‘under our noses.’

Stone-eating spotted shags turn up at dawn on Tata Beach, in Golden Bay – and Alison headed there in 2013.

In 2015, she went in search of urban eagle rays in Wellington’s inner harbour.