NESTING PRIVACY OF ROYAL ALBATROSS DESTROYED.
On Campbell Island Mr. Guthrie Smith found Royal Albatross diminishing, but “not every one of the great eggs had been basely cooked and eaten; not all of the majestic birds had been destroyed by degradation of pasture or worried by stray sheep dogs.” After “a long tramp” he found sitting birds, but on “the grazed moorland” the tussock that should have sheltered their nests was absent. The great birds might as well have nested on a carpet. “They looked sadly out of place in their glaring, staring, flagrant, salient obviousness.” And he fires this parting shot at the wisdom of past Governments down to 1926: “What a poor, curtailed, mutilated, sterile world we threaten our descendants with!”
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Forest and Bird, Issue 44, 1 May 1937, Page 13
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