New Zealand Birds

DSC_3416 Black robin, or kakaruia (Petroica traversi) new habitat. For almost a century Little Mangere had been the last remaining habitat of the black robin, but by late 1976, the population had dropped to just two pairs and three lone males, and so all birds were transferred there, to this sheltered patch of forest on nearby Mangere Island *

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DSC_3416 Black robin, or kakaruia (Petroica traversi) new habitat. For almost a century Little Mangere had been the last remaining habitat of the black robin, but by late 1976, the population had dropped to just two pairs and three lone males, and so all birds were transferred there, to this sheltered patch of forest on nearby Mangere Island *