Male flowers on a black beech. Every four to six years the massed summer flowering of beech trees is the forerunner to a phenomenon known as mast seeding. Autumn through to early spring sees vast amounts of seed fall to the ground leading to an explosion in mouse and then stoat populations - the latter feeding on the mice. As mouse numbers decline the hungry stoats eat more native birds.
ROD MORRIS
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Forest and Bird, Issue 281, 1 August 1996, Unnumbered Page
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71Male flowers on a black beech. Every four to six years the massed summer flowering of beech trees is the forerunner to a phenomenon known as mast seeding. Autumn through to early spring sees vast amounts of seed fall to the ground leading to an explosion in mouse and then stoat populations - the latter feeding on the mice. As mouse numbers decline the hungry stoats eat more native birds. ROD MORRIS Forest and Bird, Issue 281, 1 August 1996, Unnumbered Page
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