Kia ora & welcome

I’m Chris, a writer and conservation worker currently based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, New Zealand. In one of my previous lives, I worked as a software engineer at Apple from 1999 to 2019. In other previous lives I was a pizza delivery driver, a bicycle mechanic, and a parrot breeder.

As social media doesn’t seem particularly social anymore, I’m hoping this will be a good way to reconnect with my friends I’ve lost touch with in recent times. Instagram is a good place to fill in the gaps from the last few years until I flesh out the stories here.

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I did two advanced bird training courses at Avian Behavior International.

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Hoping to reconnect with old friends and make some new ones. Here, I’ve collected the last decade of my writing on various topics. Enjoy!

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Writer + conservationist in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington, NZ. Previous lives: Apple Engineer (1999 - 2019), bird breeder, pizza delivery, bicycle mechanic.