Hundreds of people have visited Wellington Zoo in New Zealand to bid farewell to a lost emperor penguin that washed ashore 3,000 miles from home, desperately ill after consuming sand he had mistaken for snow.

A young Emperor penguin stranded on a New Zealand beach thousands of miles from home is heading back home on a research ship.

A major bid to get kereru, the native woodpigeon, back into the nation's gardens has been launched.