Story: Merton, Donald Vincent

Collecting snipe eggs

Don Merton crouches outdoors, transferring bird eggs to a white plastic container.

Don Merton collecting Chatham Island snipe eggs at South East Island, Chatham Islands, in 1981, for transfer to the Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre at Mount Bruce.

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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/biographies/6m13/merton-donald-vincent (accessed 25 April 2024)