Date: 27/08/2012 22:01:13
From: neomyrtus_
ID: 192947
Subject: Aussie pelicans emigrate to NZ

get automatic permanent residency and WINZ cards

http://www.3news.co.nz/Reverse-brain-drain—-Aussie-pelicans-move-to-NZ/tabid/367/articleID/266746/Default.aspx

Eighty-seven thousand Kiwis moved to Australia last year, and about 40,000 Aussies moved here in that time.

But its just 14 of those Australians that we’re interested in tonight: 14 remarkable birds that have managed to fly 2,000km across the Tasman Sea to set up home in the north.

The birds are pelicans, and the unusual thing about this migration is how large it is.

Pelicans have flown across the Tasman before but not in great enough numbers to start a new population.

Well a new chapter in the history of New Zealand wildlife is quietly being written on the banks of the Wairoa River, near Dargaville.

It involves our new Australian friends, some mullets, and a tiny town that few have ever heard of.

Tristram Clayton headed north to find out what’s going on.

Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/Reverse-brain-drain—-Aussie-pelicans-move-to-NZ/tabid/817/articleID/266746/Default.aspx#ixzz24kNtkZNd

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Date: 27/08/2012 22:04:12
From: roughbarked
ID: 192950
Subject: re: Aussie pelicans emigrate to NZ

neomyrtus_ said:


get automatic permanent residency and WINZ cards

http://www.3news.co.nz/Reverse-brain-drain—-Aussie-pelicans-move-to-NZ/tabid/367/articleID/266746/Default.aspx

Eighty-seven thousand Kiwis moved to Australia last year, and about 40,000 Aussies moved here in that time.

But its just 14 of those Australians that we’re interested in tonight: 14 remarkable birds that have managed to fly 2,000km across the Tasman Sea to set up home in the north.

The birds are pelicans, and the unusual thing about this migration is how large it is.

Pelicans have flown across the Tasman before but not in great enough numbers to start a new population.

Well a new chapter in the history of New Zealand wildlife is quietly being written on the banks of the Wairoa River, near Dargaville.

It involves our new Australian friends, some mullets, and a tiny town that few have ever heard of.

Tristram Clayton headed north to find out what’s going on.

Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/Reverse-brain-drain—-Aussie-pelicans-move-to-NZ/tabid/817/articleID/266746/Default.aspx#ixzz24kNtkZNd

It would be interesting to know why.

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