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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

This attitude of superiority and arrogance can be seen in the recent story about a researcher on the Solomon Islands who mist trapped a bird not seen by scientists for fifty years. The justification was ridiculously laughable: in order to further study the species. Researchers can and do provide valuable information.

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The Pelican is not a New Zealand Bird

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

The fossil record here is actually very good for birds, but across the whole of the country the entire collection of bones of pelicans only represented seven individuals. For starters New Zealand didn’t seem to have or have ever had the right type of wetlands to sustain a population of this large piscivore.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

The Pelican is not a New Zealand Bird

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