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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

But hedgehogs? There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. But man cannot live on bread alone, and the homesick settlers wanted more than just game. We don’t have monkeys, or wildebeest, or salmon here. It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. Greenfinches?