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Trips

Volcano country

February 2, 2011 by Duncan 6 Comments

Last December I took the opportunity to drive the length of North Island with my Kiwi flatmate Nicole. The trip was a chance for...

Conservation

Wikipedia and the birds

January 26, 2011 by Duncan 7 Comments

As some of you might have noticed, it was Wikipedia’s birthday a week and a half ago. Ten years since Jimmy Wales and Larry...

Conservation

Absence: Big South Cape Island

January 19, 2011 by Duncan 2 Comments

Six posts over seven weeks may seem a lot to devote to the wrecking of New Zealand’s bird fauna. Perhaps it is, although entire...

Conservation

Getting acclimatised

January 12, 2011 by Duncan 1 Comment

The third stage of the extinction events I’ve been cataloguing here began with the settlement of New Zealand by Europeans, mainly Brits, after the...

Conservation

Mining for moa

January 5, 2011 by Duncan 2 Comments

No moa, no moa In old Ao-tea-roa Can’t get ’em They’ve et ’em They’re gone and there ain’t no moa’ New Zealand folk song....

Birds

Bouncing storm-petrels

December 29, 2010 by Duncan 4 Comments

Christmas and my current trip north means that I’ll be taking a break from my six-part examination of New Zealand extinctions this week. Instead...

Birding

Enter the Rat

December 22, 2010 by Duncan 4 Comments

“The only mammal present is the harmless Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans” Gordon Williams, 1962 “the Pacific rat was the only factor in the extinction...

Conservation

The remarkable coincidence

December 15, 2010 by Duncan 6 Comments

“I will not portray islands as outstanding natural laboratories because not many of them are natural any more.” David Steadman, Extinction and Biogeography of...

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