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    Little Barrier Island, or Hauturu in Māori (the official Māori title is Te Hauturu-o-Toi), lies off the northeastern coast of New Zealand's North Island...
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    Great Barrier Island (Māori: Aotea) lies in the outer Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, 100 kilometres (62 mi) north-east of central Auckland. With an area of...
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    abnormal number of eggs. The largest species of giant wētā is the Little Barrier Island giant wētā, also known as the wētāpunga. Giant wētā tend to be less...
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    It is endemic to New Zealand, where it survived only on Hauturu (Little Barrier Island). This very large flightless wētā mainly feeds at night, when it...
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    Cape Island Te Hauturu-o-Toi / Little Barrier Island Te Motu-o-Kura / Bare Island Te Hāwere-a-Maki / Goat Island Te Tio Island Tikitiki Island, (The...
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    lying between Cape Rodney on the North Auckland Peninsula and Little Barrier Island. The other two channels are the Cradock Channel and the Colville...
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    New Zealand storm petrel (category Little Barrier Island)
    and video of 10 to 20 New Zealand storm petrels off Great Barrier and Little Barrier Islands in the Hauraki Gulf. Subsequently, four storm petrels were...
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    Cradock Channel (category Great Barrier Island)
    It is the central channel, lying between Great Barrier Island to the east and Little Barrier Island to the west. The other two channels are the Jellicoe...
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    east. It is largely protected from the Pacific by Great Barrier Island and Little Barrier Island to the north, and by the 80-kilometre-long Coromandel Peninsula...
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    Rodney County each took their names from Cape Rodney (opposite Little Barrier Island), which Captain James Cook named on 24 November 1769 after Admiral...
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  • Hauturu can refer to: Little Barrier Island or Hauturu which is an island in the Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand Hauturu Island which is near Whangamatā on...
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    exclusively within the Waitākere Ranges, on Great Barrier Island, Little Barrier Island and the Mokohinau Islands. Auckland Region covers 4,941.16 km2 (1,907...
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    Stanwellia hapua (category Little Barrier Island)
    1968 by Ray Forster from a single female specimen collected in Little Barrier Island by Graham Turbott. It was transferred into the Stanwellia genus...
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    restricted to the Waitākere Ranges, Great Barrier Island, Little Barrier Island and the Mokohinau Islands. A number of species have restricted ranges...
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    In 1903, three kākāpō were moved from Resolution Island to the nature reserve of Little Barrier Island (Hauturu-o-Toi) north-east of Auckland, but feral...
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    The Sea Islands are a chain of over a hundred tidal and barrier islands on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the Southeastern United States, between the mouths...
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    northern Auckland Region, it is now found only on the Great Barrier and Little Barrier islands in the Hauraki Gulf. A cryptic forest dweller, it can hide...
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    Migas insularis (category Little Barrier Island)
    1968 by Cecil Wilton from a single female specimen collected on Little Barrier Island by Graham Turbott in 1945. The holotype is stored in Auckland Museum...
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    directly west of Little Barrier Island. It is within Cape Rodney-Okakari Point Marine Reserve, New Zealand's first marine reserve. The island is spiritually...
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    auriceps) on Little Barrier Island, Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 22(2), 161-171. "Tiritiri Matangi Island - Birds". Archived...
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    The North Island snipe (Coenocorypha barrierensis), also known as the little barrier snipe or tutukiwi, is an extinct species of bird in the sandpiper...
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    Stitchbird (category Birds of the North Island)
    everywhere except Little Barrier Island, but has been reintroduced to two other island sanctuaries and four locations on the North Island mainland. Current...
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    have been described from the Snares, Little Barrier Island, Stewart Island, the Antipodes Islands and Campbell Island. A morphological study and comparisons...
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    breeder of New Zealand, breeding only on Great Barrier Island and Little Barrier Island, off the North Island. At sea it disperses as far as Australia and...
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    the new juveniles, were returned to their islands of origin. In the 1991–92 season, Little Barrier Island was found to hold only eight tuatara, which...
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  • species. After cats were eradicated from Little Barrier Island, the local bird populations increased and North Island saddlebacks were successfully reintroduced...
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    childhood experiences, saying: I grew up on the Jersey Shore, on a little barrier island. The Atlantic Ocean was on one side, the bay was on the other. Everyone...
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    endemic terrestrial birds, as well as species of insects such as the Little Barrier Island giant wētā. As part of its program to restore these populations...
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    honeyeaters and by the possible threat to pristine island habitats such as Little Barrier Island, began eradicating the feral population in 2000. The...
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    Island gigantism, or insular gigantism, is a biological phenomenon in which the size of an animal species isolated on an island increases dramatically...
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