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Bird Predation by Possums

Authors: Wink Sutton
Publication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 2011, Issue N.Z.J.For. 56(1) 2011, pp 30, May 2011
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry
Abstract: Dear Sir Colin Bassett comment in the February issue 55(4) of this journal makes fascinating reading but it suggests that predation of possums on birds was not known until the early 1950s. This is a misconception. M. R. Skipworth (later Superintendent of Reserves in Dunedin but then a student at Canterbury and President of the Forestry Club (the forerunner of the New Zealand Institute of foresters/forestry) wrote an article on opposums. What follows are extracts from his 1928 account:
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