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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. The centre now encompasses native bush into which some of these endangered species have been released. (It And on this visit, we were there in time to see feeding for the kiwi chicks the centre was raising.

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Regarding Kakariki

10,000 Birds

In that particular spirit I hope to set the record straight on two separate issues that revolve around a genus of parakeets found mostly, but not exclusively, in New Zealand. These species, recorded by early European explorers, are now sadly extinct, but the disjunct distribution is something of a mystery.