Rook
I used to see rooks in the northern Wairarapa on my sister’s farm under
the Ruahine mountain range not far from Ekatahuna. There, the open
rolling landscape, shaped by dairy farms with shelter belts of old
macrocarpa trees (Monterey cypress) and Lombardy poplars, attracts few
birds other than the more common introduced birds, and many magpies. The
eastern Rosella, which is there in quite large numbers, is the
brightest spot in an otherwise dull avian landscape. Now sadly the
Regional Council is intent upon exterminating rooks, and for no good
reason as far as I can see.
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