Forest and Bird member Geoff Kitchin holds a file, stuck into a tree by kaka hunters many years ago. The noise made by scratching a tin matchbox with the file brought in the birds. Kaka have long been in decline in this region. An old lady at Karamea tells of huge flocks that existed prior the 1930s when the kahikatea was cleared from the river flats. Geoff remembers seeing 20 kaka in a flock at Karamea in the 1950s. I saw eight in the same area 20 years ago. But the most I've seen flying together, in the last two years at Orikaka, is three. — Pete Lusk.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 296, 1 May 2000, Page 22
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107Forest and Bird member Geoff Kitchin holds a file, stuck into a tree by kaka hunters many years ago. The noise made by scratching a tin matchbox with the file brought in the birds. Kaka have long been in decline in this region. An old lady at Karamea tells of huge flocks that existed prior the 1930s when the kahikatea was cleared from the river flats. Geoff remembers seeing 20 kaka in a flock at Karamea in the 1950s. I saw eight in the same area 20 years ago. But the most I've seen flying together, in the last two years at Orikaka, is three. — Pete Lusk. Forest and Bird, Issue 296, 1 May 2000, Page 22
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