A NEW BIRD PEST.
The North Otago 'Times states that the fruitgrowers in the Oamaru districc have a new bird pest to cope with. This season a bird new to the district has made its appearance, and strawberry growers have found to their cost that its depredations are more extensive than anythiug they have yet had to deal with. The bird has no name, so far as fruitgrowers know, but a very bad one. It is described as tufted, red-breasted, in shape like a goldfinch, but iv colour differing from that bird, as also in habit and disposition. Whole crops of strawberries have been rained by the birds, and one large fruitgrower has to wage war from daybreak till nightfall against them in order to be able to reap any of his crop of strawberries.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9280, 4 December 1895, Page 5
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135A NEW BIRD PEST. Press, Volume LII, Issue 9280, 4 December 1895, Page 5
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