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A team headed by the Department of Conservation has just returned from the island, on a mission to collect wild eggs from tūturuatu, the New Zealand shore plover.
Leigh Percasky, from Isaac Wildlife and Conservation Trust, was part of the team carrying out the essential work. These guys are really critically endangered. There s around 250 birds left in the world, he told 1 NEWS. Our mission over there was to go and collect some wild eggs to bring back for the captive recovery programme.