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Biography: Merton, Donald Vincent

Checking on chicks

Checking on chicks

Don Merton removing four-day old kākāpō chicks from a nest cavity for weighing at Whenua Hou / Codfish Island in March 1997.

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Department of Conservation

by Don Merton

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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/photograph/47678/checking-on-chicks (accessed 4 June 2026).