A STORM-DRIVEN BIRD.
DISCOVERY AT LAKE TAUPO. (Per Press Association.) NAPIER, February 5. A rare bird was discovered on the shore of ’Lake Taupo during the height of the storm on Sunday. The bird has a long scarlet beak of four inches, a single red tail feather almost two feet in length and pearly pink plumage. It was brought to Napier and later placed in Cornwall Park, Hastings, pending inquiries. Apparently it is *a tropical bird. It is thought possible that it might be a bosun bird. It is comparatively tame. It is thought that the bird may have escaped from a zoological garden in New Zealand. “The bird referred to in the message is know.ii ns Phaeton rubricauda. Its nearest bleeding place to New Zealand is the Kermadec Islands, about 600 miles away in a north-easterly dircctiou. Actually all tropical birds with one exception, arc broadly known as ‘bosun’ birds,” said Mr E. I. Stead, when the message was referred to him at Christchurch last evening. The species to which the bird belonged was the commonest and most widely distributed of its class, and this was by no means the first time that one had visited New Zealand. It was undoubtedly a storm-driven straggler and not one which had escaped from a zoological garden.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 98, 6 February 1936, Page 10
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