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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. Birds kiwi New Zealand New Zealand Conservation'

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

But you can take solace in the results at the end of the breeding year, when loafing around the intertidal are a shiny new cohort of finely plumage grey youngsters, all ready to carry on Western Gull line into the future. This is a very serious business here in New Zealand. Western Gull chick.