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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

With the geese rediscovered, an intensive campaign to remove introduced foxes began, and many geese were relocated from Buldir Island to islands they formerly inhabited. A curious Laysan Duck takes a stroll at Midway Atoll. Although Laysan Duck is a Hawaiian bird, most birders have never heard of it. That would have been awful.

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10,000 Birds

Mt Bruce, since you ask, is the Department of Conservation’s premier endangered bird breeding centre. The centre now encompasses native bush into which some of these endangered species have been released. (It Long-finned Eels swam in the rivers, and in their pens the breeding Blue Ducks where whistling away.