NATIVE BIRDS.
Alarming Depredations of German Owl in N.Z. STRINGENT PROTECTION. (Received 11 a.m.) . HOBART, this day. The Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union passed a resolution urging more stringent protection of native birds. Mr. W. R. B. Oliver, Director of the Dominion Museum, Wellington, drew attention to the havoc among New Zealand birds by the German owl, which had increased alarmingly. Mrs. P. Moncrieff, a New Zealander, was elected president for 1933, and is the first woman to occupy the position. The German owl was introduced into New Zealand in 1906 by the Otago Acclimatisation Society, in order to destroy the small orchard pests such as sparrows and finches. Further snipmente of about 80 birds each arrived during the next four years. At first results were satisfactory, but the birds increased and spread quickly; reports of their destruction of small native birds have been received from all provinces of the boutli Island and from Wellington and Taranaki. They have also to a certain extent displaced the native owl.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 259, 1 November 1932, Page 7
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