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To figure out where petrels, storm petrels, shearwaters andprions--members of the Procellariiformes order--once lived,Bellvé gathered up these historic records and scoured oldnewspapers for mentions of seabirds. Whitehead reached her arm into the burrow, nearly ametre deep, and extracted a dead Cook's petrel, a seabird thathad not bred on the mainland for perhaps a century or more. LIVING WORLD Once upon a time, raucous, stinking colonies of seabirdsblanketed huge areas of Aotearoa's mainland, each burrow and pooand eggshell helping fuel the forests. [Extracted from the article] |
