OUR NATIVE BIRDS.
PLEA FOR PROTECTION. WELLINGTON, September 3. During the lecture given here last night on our native birds, Mr E. Stead said: “When you see a strange bird in the garden, or your children come and tell vou about one, tell them to leave it alone. Do not go and get a gun to shoot it. There are other and better ways of finding out all about it.” Mr Stead said that there were many instances of birds coming back after 20 years’ absence, and becoming plentiful again. The bellbird was a care in point. They ■ survived for some time, but gradually decreased. In the year t9lO they began to increase till to-day they had oosne back to the buali they had forsaken, and now they were plentiful. If the pioneers were treated properly when they get back to civilisation and to onr gardens, wo would have a great many birds not there at present, and, while he recognised the claims for sanctuaries and the importance of the rarer forms of science, what was of the greatest importance, he held, was that we should be able to rub shoulders with our birds.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3782, 7 September 1926, Page 59
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194OUR NATIVE BIRDS. Otago Witness, Issue 3782, 7 September 1926, Page 59
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