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Acclimatisation Society aviary

These photographs were taken at the Auckland Acclimatisation Society's pheasant aviary at their Ōkoroire game farm in south Waikato, around 1911. Pheasants and other birds were raised there prior to being released so they could become 'food for the gun'.

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Reference: AWNS-19110803-3-1

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Neil Deans, Game birds – Game birds in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/zoomify/16714/acclimatisation-society-aviary (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Neil Deans, published 30 October 2009, updated 20 April 2025.