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Hunting the Mountain Witch

10,000 Birds

A Jamaican Tody on Ecclesdown Road Ecclesdown Road is one of the best sites to see the declining and rare Jamaican Blackbird Crested Quail-doves are most active at dusk and dawn. Hotel Mocking Bird Hill is within a short drive and the hotel owners will gladly organize transport and a local guide.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. The Eurasian Blackbird was not found in new Zealand before man, but it is now. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either.