BIRD SANCTUARY
Good Breeding Season
Reports from the State bird sanctuary at Gouland Downs, Nelson, state that the present breeding season for native birds is proving far more successful than for a number of years. As a result of dally observations the ranger of the sanctuary, Mr. R. E. Clouston, has informed the Minister of Internal Affairs, Hon. Adam Hamilton, that he has not for some time seen so many young birds of almost all species, Including the weka, fern bird, and native pigeon. The stopping of indiscriminate burning on tussock and fern lands and the abundance of food everywhere in the sanctuary had greatly helped the increase of the birds.
“The hills,” the ranger says, “are one mass of rata blossom at present, and the kaka parrots are having a splendid time with the nectar from these trees, which only. occasionally bloom so much as at this time of the year. The blue mountain duck (whia) is, however, not nearly so plentiful since the great earthquake, and I attribute this to the river beds being covered with some feet of gravel and shingle, spoiling the ducks’ feeding grounds. All the streams mound here are the same—all carrying terrific load# of material to the sea/*
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 92, 13 January 1932, Page 11
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205BIRD SANCTUARY Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 92, 13 January 1932, Page 11
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