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Petrel Paradise

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These terns are generally subtropical birds of the Pacific (I’ve seen them before in Tonga) and reach the extreme south of their range in northern New Zealand. • Explore These Related Posts Tree Swallows Return, It Must Be Spring Stalking a Kiwi Icon Polygynandry and the Alpine Accentor Duck Migration Finally Saw-Whet.Or

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Regarding Kakariki

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These species, recorded by early European explorers, are now sadly extinct, but the disjunct distribution is something of a mystery. Conservation budgets are tight, and why save a morph, even a distinctive one, when there are species that need help? Indeed, subspecies are themselves lower conservation priorities than species.