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New Zealand fights to save its flightless national bird
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WELLINGTON: New Zealand's treasured kiwi birds are shuffling around Wellington's verdant hills for the first time in a century, after a drive to eliminate invasive predators from the capital's surrounds.Visitors to New Zealand a millennium ago would have encountered a bona fide “birdtopia” -- islands teeming with feathered creatures fluttering through life unaware that mammalian predators existed.The arrival of Polynesian voyagers in the 1200s and Europeans a few hundred years later changed all that.Rats picked off snipe-rails and petrels, mice chewed through all the seeds and berries they could find, leaving little for native birds to peck on.Possums -- introduced for fur -- stripped trees

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