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Saving a New Zealand Icon

10,000 Birds

Mt Bruce, since you ask, is the Department of Conservation’s premier endangered bird breeding centre. Long-finned Eels swam in the rivers, and in their pens the breeding Blue Ducks where whistling away. Kiwi, New Zealand icons par excellence , are rather endangered. A Kaka at Mt Bruce. So what was going on?

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs. Most of these clutches of eggs will hatch to produce three fluffy and adorable chicks. This is a very serious business here in New Zealand. Western Gull chick.