Grallards: New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2014
Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. Conservation, as I have observed before, is interested in protecting the population and the ecosystem over the individual.
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