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Kōrero: Subantarctic islands

Shearwaters, the Snares

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This clip from the 1995 television documentary Islands in the stormshows the massing of huge numbers of sooty shearwaters (Puffinus griseus, tītī or muttonbird) around the Snares in the evening before they land to go to their burrows in the bush. There are millions of these birds around the islands.

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Jock Phillips, Subantarctic islands – Fauna, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/38509/shearwaters-the-snares (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 28 November 2012.