TOO MANY MAGPIES
DANGER. TO CHILDREN. PUGNACIOUS AT NESTING TIME. (Per Press Association.—Copyright.") WELLINGTON, This Day. ‘ ‘ The magpie has undoubtedly increased rapidly within the last few years,” stated the ranger, Mr Andrews, in a report presented to the Wellington 'Acclimatisation Society. “I recently reported on the pugnacious temperament of this bird and pointed out that it is a positive danger when allowed to build its nest where children are in the habit of playing.” The ranger added that magpies were not a grave danger to bird life, because they were essentially birds of open pastures and disliked ground cover of any sort. Ranger Wilson reported that farmers generally spoke highly of magpies, but agreed that they wore pugnacious during the nesting season. One farmer stated that he had to shoot two magpies because they swooped down on children when the' latter were passing within 50 yards of a tree in which the birds were nesting.
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Northern Advocate, 15 September 1932, Page 5
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