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Stalking a Kiwi Icon

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Stalking a Kiwi Icon Stalking a Kiwi Icon By Duncan • March 16, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share Most people, if asked, would confidently name what they thought the National Bird of New Zealand was.

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Swimming with dolphins

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If you love the idea of swimming with dolphins, New Zealand is a great place to do it. There is also something quite otherworldy about hanging around with something that is as smart as a dolphin but isn’t human; I’ve had a similar feeling when spending time around wild chimpanzees. Akaroa Harbour. Well, I say we.

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Use it or lose it?

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Earlier this year a cyclone blew through New Zealand and uprooted a lot of native trees on government land on South Island. People, they argue, are more important than bugs, and besides, the money will help pay to protect other conservation land. Shot a rhino? By contrast, not all extractive use is bad.

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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

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How it is being affected by human intrusions? I used the collections in Australasia to examine how climate and isolation affected the sized and shape of birds across New Zealand. One look at his bio and you know he’s trouble. Says the prosecution to this: “Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song?

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. This is a very serious business here in New Zealand.

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Tiritiri Matangi Island

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One bird I apparently heard at the landing (although it didn’t register to me) was the Fernbird , New Zealand’s only Old World warbler (or more accurately megalurid warbler ). Greg the Naughty Takahe ( Porphyrio hochstetteri ) Tags: Destinations , new zealand • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts?

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Polygynandry and avian swingers

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Nice. ((** all names have been changed to protect identities and have been substituted with (almost) randomly chosen substitutes suitable for a family of Alpine Accentors.)) Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 8:37 am Hi Laurent, that is a fascinating example of humans responding to difficult environmental challenges.

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