Landing through the surf on Potuma, one of the muttonbird islands off Southwest Cape, Stewart Island, in 1961. The buildings belonged to 'muttonbirders'. The arrival and irruption of rats, shortly after this, on nearby Great South Cape Island/Taukihepa, devastated that island's wildlife, causing local extinctions plus the global extinction of Stead's bush wren, the Stewart Island snipe and the greater short-tailed bat.
DON MERTON
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Forest and Bird, Issue 313, 1 August 2004, Page 33
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64Landing through the surf on Potuma, one of the muttonbird islands off Southwest Cape, Stewart Island, in 1961. The buildings belonged to 'muttonbirders'. The arrival and irruption of rats, shortly after this, on nearby Great South Cape Island/Taukihepa, devastated that island's wildlife, causing local extinctions plus the global extinction of Stead's bush wren, the Stewart Island snipe and the greater short-tailed bat. DON MERTON Forest and Bird, Issue 313, 1 August 2004, Page 33
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