DAMAGE TO CLOVER
Sir,—ls the silver-eye a moth and midge-eater? Most small birds native to New Zealand have the reputation of living upon insects. Have their numbers been depleted, and how? If damage has been done to clover, might the planting of native shrubs and trees in clumps in and about fields attract back colonies of insect-eating birds to protect each one its own stampingground and rear its young? In earlier times remarkably healthy clover grew close to the foothills of Canterbury, where the bush sheltered birds which seemed for ever to be catching moths or midges on the wing.—Yours, etc., BIRDS’ WORK. June 3, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27985, 4 June 1956, Page 16
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