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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. But hedgehogs? Greenfinches? What exactly was going on.