Black-backed gulls targeted to protect rare bird species on Canterbury's braided rivers
More 80 per cent of southern black-backed gulls/karoro will be eradicated in two Canterbury rivers bid to save their rare and threatened cousins.
The gulls prey on the chicks and eggs the endangered black-fronted tern/tarapirohe, black-billed gull/tarāpuka, wrybill/ngutu pare, and banded dotterel/tūturiwhatu.
The Department of Conservation aims to reduce the population of black-backed gulls in the Waiau and Hurunui rivers by more than 80 per cent over the next five years.
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