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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. California Quail are familiar birds to West Coast birders of North America, and Kiwis too now. We don’t have monkeys, or wildebeest, or salmon here. But man cannot live on bread alone, and the homesick settlers wanted more than just game.