Wellington – New Zealand’s valued kiwi birds are shuffling around Wellington’s verdant hills for the very first time in a century, after a drive to get rid of intrusive predators from the capital’s surrounds.
Visitors to New Zealand a millennium earlier would have come across an authentic “birdtopia” — islands brimming with feathered animals fluttering through life uninformed that mammalian predators existed.
The arrival of Polynesian voyagers in the 1200s and Europeans a couple of a century later on altered all that.
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