muttonbird

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• About eighty muttonbirders, most of them Aborigines, gather from the islands or elsewhere in northern Tasmania for the muttonbird harvest.

  Academic text (1995)

• The crew landed safely on what became known as Preservation Island and erected tents near muttonbird burrows.

  Academic text (1995)

• This research has provided a detailed picture of muttonbird reproduction and mortality.

  Academic text (1995)

• I saw my first muttonbird twenty years ago when I joined the Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service and was asked to assist Serventy.

  Academic text (1995)

• But the opportunity to collect muttonbirds in quantity did not initially draw the attention of Europeans any more than it had been a focus for the Aborigines.

  Academic text (1995)

• Normally, a muttonbird burrow is only the length of an arm, but as a result of my snooping, many of the birds have extended their burrows up to six feet.

  Academic text (1995)

• Allowing the average five years required for her to have reached sexual maturity, bird 50650/40095 must have been at least thirty-eight years old when she died, well above a muttonbird's recorded average lifespan of fifteen years.

  Academic text (1995)

• As the human population grew, the harvesting of muttonbirds and the clearing and burning of land for farming and grazing obliterated several of the bird colonies.

  Academic text (1995)

• Although Tasmania has been inhabited for 35,000 years (see page 32), this intense harvesting of muttonbirds appears to have originated in historic times within a small, mixed group of Europeans and Aborigines.

  Academic text (1995)

• During the annual festival, local families gather to celebrate the muttonbird harvest with traditional dishes.

Synonyms

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seabird

vsmuttonbird

10 1.9

A bird that lives near the sea and often flies over water, like gulls or albatrosses

is a specific shearwater whose young are often harvested in New Zealand and Australia

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