Local schoolchildren with decoy gannets on Mana Island, near Wellington. The children helped paint the concrete models and visited the island the day the gannets were set in place. While birds soon came to look, they failed to stay and found a colony. Now sounds recorded in a gannet colony will be added as a further inducement to the birds to settle on Mana.
DAVE HANSFORD/ORIGIN NATURAL HISTORY MEDIA
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Forest and Bird, Issue 295, 1 February 2000, Page 21
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69Local schoolchildren with decoy gannets on Mana Island, near Wellington. The children helped paint the concrete models and visited the island the day the gannets were set in place. While birds soon came to look, they failed to stay and found a colony. Now sounds recorded in a gannet colony will be added as a further inducement to the birds to settle on Mana. DAVE HANSFORD/ORIGIN NATURAL HISTORY MEDIA Forest and Bird, Issue 295, 1 February 2000, Page 21
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