Rare duck pairs sent home
NZPA-AP London Two pairs of whitewinged wood duck, descended from birds brought to Britain 10 years ago to save the species from extinction, have been flown to Thailand, their natural habitat. The dispatch of the rare birds, raised at the Wildfowl Trust, in the Gloucestershire village of Slimbridge, marked the final stages of a programme started in 1969 by a British naturalist, Sam Mackenzie. A spokesman for the trust said that there might now be fewer than 200 pairs of the white-winged wood duck — dubbed “spirit duck” because of their ghost-like, wailing call — left in the tropical forests of SouthEast Asia.
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Press, 21 April 1984, Page 6
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