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Recovery of ringed harriers

  • Publication Type

    Journal Article

  • Publication Year

    1954

  • Author(s)

    J.S. Watson

  • Journal Name

    Notornis

  • Volume, Issue

    6, 1

  • Pagination

    6-10

  • Article Type

    Paper

  • DOI

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Recovery of ringed harriers

Notornis, 6 (1), 6-10

J.S. Watson (1954)

Article Type: Paper

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In the three years 1951–3 206 harriers have been caught and marked at two trapping stations in Hawke’s Bay. Thirty-five birds have so far been recovered and a further 14 were recaught in subsequent years where ringed. The returns indicate that the old birds tend to stay within a radius of about five miles but a proportion of the young ones disperse up to several hundred miles from where they were ringed.