DSC_8772 New Zealand and Australian palaeontologists excavate 19-16 million-year-old (Early Miocene) lake-bed deposits near the Manuherikia River, St Bathans, central Otago *
11001-82024 Black robin, or kakaruia (Petroica traversi) scientist J.A.Douglas Flack at the top of the wire ladder on Little Mangere in October 1973. It was Doug's research and monitoring between 1972 and 1976 that recorded the disturbing drop to just two pairs and a few spare males, indicating the Little Mangere population was in desperate need of rescuing
