Hi Peter -
At 05:50 PM 6/02/02 +1100, you wrote:
>I can't think of any native NZ bird being introduced anywhere
>outside of NZ (most are too rare to start off with).
The only examples I can think of are of Wekas to Macquarie Island, by
sealers last century and now exterminated, and of a (or was there more than
one?) male NZ Boobook (considered a subspecies of Southern Boobook, at
least at the time) to Norfolk Island as a mate for the lone NI Boobook
left, with a small population derived from hybrid offspring still around.
Cheers,
Hugo
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