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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...

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...

Birds

Welcome to New Zealand!

November 3, 2010 by Duncan 9 Comments

Birds in New Zealand are at their broadest defined by one of two categories, native or non-native. Non-natives abound, thanks to the determined efforts...

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