SHAG'S MEAL OF TROUT
While liberating pheasants on the banks of the Waipa River Mr. Murray Pratt, the local representative of> the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, shob a shag. When the bird was opened five fresh trout over sin. in length' were found. Allowing four such meals a day a shag would account for 20 fish each day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23274, 17 February 1939, Page 13
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57SHAG'S MEAL OF TROUT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23274, 17 February 1939, Page 13
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