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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. New Zealand has been the recipient of a higher than average number of introduced species, in particular a range of mammals from elk to mice.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

However, they were refound on Buldir Island, a remote island that never had any introduced mammals. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them. … Birds endangered species Extinction Week I Am Birder'

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