Muttonbirds’ Death
Sir.—lt is indeed very sad to read of the tragic death of so many thousands of shearwaters around our coast in the last few days. I note the diagnosis of an expert from the Canterbury Museum. I believe those birds perished for lack of their natural food. It is far from my thoughts to try to discredit other expert opinions. What I would like to dra-w attention to is that many strange things have been going on at sea in recent months. As we well know, the shearwaters migrate en masse, as many as several] thousands in a wave. They! fly close to the ocean, pos-| sibly at a height of 20ft. I Could it be possible that a] batch of these birds have at] some time recently flown into! a foul mass floating above the] ocean, and. as a result, have] been slowly but surely poisoned? We do bear of the danger of fall-out from atomic blast from time to time. Could this be one case of such a fall-out?—Yours, etc.. May 17, 1961 JOHN WADE.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29516, 18 May 1961, Page 3
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