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| | New Zealand Birdwatching, Birding, Whale Island, Moutohora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | When the Crown purchased the island in 1984, it was mainly covered in grass with remnants of forest and shrubs in gullies and on steeper slopes. |
 | | After the elimination of all mammalian predators from the island, a planting programme was implemented which, together with regeneration, has dramatically changed the island. |
 | | Forty North Island saddleback, Tieke, were transferred from Repanga, Cuvier Island, off the coast of the Coromandel Peninsula to Moutohora, Whale Island in 1999. |
| www.nzbirds.com /Whale.html (409 words) |
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