Contents

COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : What will become of the everywhere bird?
CONTENTS : Departments : UP FRONT EDITORIAL -- IN THE FIELD -- VIEWFINDER Richard Robinson revisits the fairy terns he once feared were doomed -- GeoNEWS A teenager discovers a (long dead) giant crab; love languages; make way for a whole new shape; tuatara are weirder than we thought; mangroves don't make beaches muddy, actually -- PROFILE Opera singer Madeleine Pierard on going full noise -- JUST SO Nature is queer in tooth and claw.
REFLECTION CULTURE A revealing new biography of Ans Westra; a New Zealand surgeon takes an incisive look at the medical system - and her own choices -- HISTORY Nurse Elspeth Kerr, a nurse with a fondness for poison.
CONTENTS : Features :
THE END OF THE EVERYWHERE BIRD What would the beach be without red-billed gulls? We may be about to find out. Two huge colonies have already collapsed and the next biggest, in Kaikoura, is failing fast.
THE SEARCHER Wayne Keen is a man impelled. Even after official searches wind up he'll go back to a patch of bush, and back again, looking for those who are lost. Why?
TOMB WITH A VIEW Until recently, scientists didn't think our amber held any insects. Now, they've found more than 200 specimens - immaculately preserved, and each telling a story about our prehistoric past.
WORLDS APART Your grandad builds a hut in the bush. But he builds it on public land. Should you get to keep it?
MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE A high-tech citizen science projects asks sailors to bring home samples of the deep blue sea.