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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

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. Gamebirds, such as turkeys, pheasants, partridges, quail, Mallards and the like were also brought, as were popular sport fish.

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Where the Kingfishers Are

10,000 Birds

The highlight of the night was a Striped Possum, a large squirrel sized possum with black and white striped fur. Most of these were easy enough to find on later dates,along with the smaller native Bush Rats, but I only saw one Striped Possum.

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