The rifleman is New Zealand’s smallest bird. Its Maori name, titipounamu, means little greenstone bird. In the far south on Rakiura/Stewart Island they were extinct with only a remnant population present on Codfish Island. In 2003, DOC sponsored a translocation project to reintroduce rifleman from Codfish to Ulva Island, and from there back to Rakiura. […]
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