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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. Possums still strip our native forests, ferrets and stoats and possums still devastate our native birds. Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural.

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Where the Kingfishers Are

10,000 Birds

I’ve been a fan of this particular peculiar Australian mammal my entire life, and more than any bird I wanted to see it here. As it got darker we found a Bush Thick-knee foraging in the grounds (their calls at night were quite something), and then began to find mammals.

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