Robins Remain
Westport
Pete Lusk,
I was interested to read your story ‘Robins return to Waikato. One bird species that remains common on the northern West
Coast is the South Island robin. During the six days we walked through Kahurangi National Park, one appeared almost every time we stopped. How they have hung on in the presence of stoats and rats is a mystery, as they spend a lot of time on the ground. Otherwise native birds were scarce. We saw one falcon, heard one kaka and one kea, saw a pair of blue ducks, and heard bellbirds but never saw one. Another bird that thrives here is weka. In the Westport area it is sometimes more common to see dead weka on the roads than possums.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 296, 1 May 2000, Page 3
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