NATIVE BIRDS
EGMONT NATIONAL PARK STEADY INCREASE REPORTED [by telegraph —OWN correspondent] STEW PLYMOUTH, Saturday Native birds, particularly pigeons, tuis and bellbirds, have shown a steady increase during the past ten years in the Egmont National Park, states the report of the East committee of the Park Board. When the committee started its operations ten years ago, says the chairman, Mr. J. C. Robins, pigeons, tuis and bellbirds were rarely seen, but now they are numerous. They rest near the mountain houses, and as they have not molested they remain on the trees along the plateau road while motorists drive by. There was also evidence, said Mr. Robins, that kiwis were plentiful, especiallv near Jackson's Lookout. Care was 'necessary lest the kiwis' legs were broken by traps set by opossum hunters. Endeavours to encourage the increase of birds and to entice them to the vicinity of roadways had been made by the committee, which had planted along the roads and tracks hundreds of trees bearing the berries upon which the birds feed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22119, 27 May 1935, Page 8
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172NATIVE BIRDS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22119, 27 May 1935, Page 8
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