New Zealand Birds
Sir,—“Curlew” says that in New Zealand “one can travel for miles and see hardly any birds but predatory hawks and magpies.” This is an example of how unobservant some "nature lovers’’ are. On one trip up the Main North road I noted gold finches, green finches, magpies, hawks, sparrows, pipits, blackbirds, thrushes, starlings, pigeons, waxeyes, grey warblers, fantails, and a white-faced heron, all without leaving the car. I agree with his sentiments about poison, but if there is a shortage of birds why bring in more foreign species? Many of our unique, beautiful native birds would become much more common if waste land and eroding land were planted in native bush. After having heard and seen many native birds I am sure that no exotic ones could equal them either in singing ability or in appearance.—Yours, etc., DAVID DAWSON. April 27, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29192, 30 April 1960, Page 3
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