New Zealand Birds

11011-90502 South Island saddleback (Philesturnus carunculatus) habitat. Big South Cape Island in foreground. It was from here that the saddleback was rescued by Don Merton and colleagues from the 1964 ship rat invasion. Ship rats exterminated three other endemic species (a bat and two bird species) from here *

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11011-90502 South Island saddleback (Philesturnus carunculatus) habitat. Big South Cape Island in foreground. It was from here that the saddleback was rescued by Don Merton and colleagues from the 1964 ship rat invasion. Ship rats exterminated three other endemic species (a bat and two bird species) from here *

Big South Cape 90502 island South Island saddleback Philesturnus rat invasion ship rat carunculatus habitat