14 Apr 2020

Lockdown benefits for birds and wildlife

From Afternoons, 1:33 pm on 14 April 2020

Many people have been noticing more bird song around their houses during the lockdown.

Ecologist Margaret Stanley from the University of Auckland has been looking into how the lockdown is having an effect on birds and other wildlife.

We speak to her about the benefits of the lockdown for our birds.

Tūī sitting in a tree, native New Zealand bird captured in forest on Bluff Hill, South Island, New Zealand.

Photo: 123RF

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