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Grallards: New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

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Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them. There are a lot of very threatened endemic species that aren’t found anywhere else, so why spend money saving an essentially unsalvageable species that is still common in Australia when you can spend the money on Kakapo?

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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The book is produced by WILDGuides, Ltd, the excellent book company responsible for over a dozen photographic guides on Britain’s natural life ranging from dragonflies to plant galls as well as books on Africa, Australia and other areas we all want to visit, and was published this summer by Princeton University Press.

Ireland 145