Winged thistle is found throughout New Zealand, though evidently not in Westland ... The winged thistle has spiny strips of leaf material up its stems, and these are known as wings, hence the name ...

but this is now not very common in New Zealand since all of the land changes that have occurred since colonisation by Europeans. Hence the move to make similar use of this closely related and much ...

They quickly found the body, which was lying 15 metres from a turbine base with its wing detached ... comes after that of another eagle, named Thistle, which had been translocated by SSGEP ...