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Restless New Zealand Fantails

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2013

The family also reaches into India and as far east as samoa and Fiji. This is possibly because of the story of the Maori hero Maui, who was trying to sneak up on the goddess of night and death, Hinenuitepo, in order to kill her and end death. The call of the New Zealand Fantail is like a squeaky toy.

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Some thoughts on scientific collecting

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

What wasn’t publicised at the time, but the scientist later both admitted and owned, is that the kingfisher was then killed and collected for scientific reasons. I’m not going to rehash the arguments for scientific collecting here. Unsurprisingly the ones that most stick in the mind were the lost species.

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