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Biography: Merton, Donald Vincent

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NZ On Screen

Watch documentaries about Don Merton’s work saving the tīeke (saddleback), kākāpō and Chatham Island black robin from extinction.

Bibliography

Ballance, A. Don Merton: the man who saved the black robin. Auckland, 2007

Ballance, A. Kākāpō: rescued from the brink of extinction. Second edition, Nelson, 2018

Butler, D. and D. Merton. The black robin: the saving of the world’s most endangered bird. Oxford, 1992

How to cite this page

Alison Ballance. 'Merton, Donald Vincent', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2022. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/231769/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).