NATIVE BIRDS
PLENTIFUL ON WEST COAST. MOREPORK A MENAGE. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.) WELLINGTON, This Day. In a report to the Acclimatisation Society on native birds in .the Western Sounds, Mr K, Sutherland says that kiwis are plentiful on the'eeaside 'between Doubtful and George Sounds, but not inland, Wekas are numerous ■and kill stoats and weasels, thus keeping those peats down. Kakapos-, keas, pigeons and ■ other birds arc plentiful. Their worst enemy was the which in-the absence of rats and has taken to eating, small birds, and the sparrow hawk is the next. -
On tlie whole, Mr Sutherland considers that the birds are quite as numer-
ous .as 45 years ago
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Northern Advocate, 13 June 1929, Page 4
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