STUDY OF BIRD LIFE
ORNITHOLOGISTS’ VISIT TO GREEN ISLAND Three bird-lovers, Mr Edgar Stead, Major R. A. Wilson, of Bulls, and Mr Elworthy, of Timaru, left Bluff yesterday in the launch Lena for Green Island. The party intends spending some time studying natural life on several of the islands out of Bluff. There has been some talk at Bluff of a strange bird having been seen recently on Ruapuke Island, but residents with years of knowledge of the fauna on outlying islands consider it will be one of the ' birds commonly known as Mother Carey’s chickens. It is Mr Stead’s intention to study the habits of the native robin and to continue his study of the mutton-bird. It is also understood that he will try to discover one of the two-headed lizards which are supposed to have been on the Hazelbergs, a group of islands off Ruapuke. Mr Stead is the author of a well-known work on New Zealand birds and it is understood he is now preparing another book.
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Southland Times, Issue 24599, 22 November 1941, Page 6
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