Vagrant visitors
Jun 26, 2022
2 minutes
by Bob Brockie
From possums to Queensland fruit flies, a fair few pests from over the Tasman have caused problems in this country. But unseen, thousands of harmless Australian migrants – birds, insects, spiders–fly or drift here all the time.
Among the birds are pelicans – 12 were seen recently on mudflats near Dargaville – egrets, ibises, bitterns, kites, sea eagles, kestrels, half a dozen
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