YOUNG LAMBS ATTACKED.
SEA BIRDS' DEPREDATIONS. COASTAL FARMERS' LOSSES. Young lambs have been attacked in several districts this year by large sea birds, chiefly mollyhawks, and farmers whose properties adjoin the coast have suffered extensively from their depredations. One farmer on a holding near Cape Colville has lost more than 40 lambs this season.
Attacks by sea birds occur sporadically in different coastal districts. The reason is not known, as the attacks usually take place in a normal season, when the birds are able to obtain their ordinary supplies of food from the sea and beaches. The birds are not as vicious as the kea—which will attack fully-grown sheep—and only destroy very young lamb#. Usually they pick out the eyes and peck the lambs about the head with their sharp bills, causing death in a short time.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20989, 28 September 1931, Page 6
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