'Extremely disappointing': 10 rare birds dead after motorist

'Extremely disappointing': 10 rare birds dead after motorists 'recklessly' drive through colony
Newshub
19/01/2021
Rachel Sadler, Kaysha Brownlie
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Watch: The Department of Conservation is investigating the deaths of ten rare gulls in a protected area of Canterbury's Ashley River.
Several rare birds are dead in Canterbury after people in four-wheel-drive vehicles and on motorbikes rode through a colony of nesting black-billed gulls.
The drivers killed 10 birds last week in the Ashley Rakahuri Regional Park just north of Christchurch, which Environment Canterbury chairperson Jenny Hughey calls "extremely disappointing".
"These beautiful birds are unique to New Zealand, mainly breeding on South Island braided rivers, are 'nationally critical' and rapidly declining, and are the most threatened gull species in the world," she says.

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