Nesting place of while heron
Sir, — Your caption on a recent photograph of a white heron said that it was returning to Okarito for nesting. This was not correct. The white heron has never nested at Okarito. It nests by the Waitangi-Roto Creek several miles north. — Yours etc., RON FERGUSON, Greymouth. July 11, 1980. [Our correspondent is strictly correct. • In “New Zealand Birds” W. R. B. Oliver says: “The. j only known nesting colony of the White Egret in New Zealand
is in forest on the banks of the Waitangituna River not far from the Okarito Lagoon. — Editor]
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