NATIVE BIRDS
IN WESTERN SOUNDS. AS NUMEROUS AS 45 YEARS AGO. — — [By Telegraph, Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 13. In a report to the Acclimatisation Society on native birds in the western Sounds, Mr Iv. Sutherland says kiwis are plentiful on the seaside between Doubtful and George Sounds, hut not inland. Wekas are numerous and kill stoats and weasels, thus keeping this pest down. Kakapos, kens, kakas, pigeons and other birds are plentiful. The worst enemy was the morepork which in the absence of rats and mice has taken to eating small birds, and the sparrow hawk is the next. On the whole Air Sutherland considers the birds are quite as numerous as 45 years ago.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1929, Page 5
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