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- From: tony@zoo.toronto.edu (Anthony L. Lang)
- Subject: Bird of a vanishing species was seen in N. Zealand
- Message-ID: <C1KrxM.Dry@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:44:02 GMT
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article: <38401@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
- mariou@astro.astro.ufl.edu (Mariou Gottesman) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone know anything about this ? A moa was sighted?
- >
- >Please send me any information you have. Thanks
- >
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- Many of the native species of birds are close to
- extinction (others are already extinct), so it could
- be any one of a number of species. However, the species
- of greatest concern is the KAKAPO (Strigops sp.), a nearly
- flightless nocturnal parrot that looks a lot like an owl.
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- Anthony Lang
- Dept. of Zoology,
- University of Toronto
-