Birds in the Mountains

Black-Billed Gull Killing

Several of these Beautiful, endangered birds have be killed and one is also in intensive care. The cause of these incidents is Stone throwing and cars. The above bird (that I found) third or fourth badly harmed at Lake Rotoiti alone and appears to have been run over.

 At the Lake there were two boys telling visitors about Black-billed Gulls and trying to stop any more from being killed.

While I was down there I got the numbers of all the birds I could. 

                          Here a few of the 39 numbers I collected: