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| | Kereru (New Zealand Native Pigeon) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | The New Zealand native pigeon or kereru is a large bird with greyish green feathers on its back and head, and a smart white vest. |
 | | Berries are its favourite food and trees such as the karaka, taraire, tawa, miro and others depend on the kereru to carry their seeds to new areas of forest. |
 | | Tree lucerne is useful in the short-term as it flowers prolifically in winter and grows quickly; for a long-term solution, plant miro, titoki, tawa, fuchsia, kowhai, five-finger, pate, supplejack, bush lawyer, pigeonwood, taraire, puriri and wineberry. |
| www.doc.govt.nz /Conservation/001~Plants-and-Animals/001~Native-Animals/Kereru-(NZ-Native-Pigeon).asp (816 words) |
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