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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : HOW TO SAVE A SEABIRD : Every autumn, dazzled by city lights, hundreds of young petrels crash and can't take off again. Getting them back in the sky is an ordeal, and a thrill.
CONTENTS : Departments : UP FRONT EDITORIAL -- PUBLISHER'S LETTER --IN THE FIELD -- VIEWFINDER Mike Scott documents the subject he wishes he'd got todo at school : outdoor education -- GeoNEWS Birds are singing overtime, Hector's dolphins are hunting upside down and scientists are making a cool new sunscreen from pollen. Plus : a tipping point for plankton; the risks of that sweet sea view - and a report on the state of our mossy nation -- PROFILE Because of Willy Marsh, hundreds of dogs are steering clear of native birds -- JUST SO Teeth are tough. So why are out choppers so exquisitely sensitive - and expensive? REFLECTION CULTURE How a childhood of fear and neglect pushed Kim Rangiaonui Logan to climb mountains; a bustling, raucous birthday issue of New Zealand's longest-running literary journal. HISTORY The story of Nenthorn, a town built a glinting, battling dream.
CONTENTS : Features :
HALL OF MIRRORS Every autumn, hundreds of newly-fledged seabirds emerge from their burrows in the dark of the Hauraki Gulf. To get to their feeding grounds, they have to fly a gauntlet : dazzling disorientating city lights.
DRAGONLUST Split open a chunk of agate and a broiling world of ancient colour and pattern emerges. Collecting the stuff is addictive, and in mid-Canterbury, old rockhounds have been hoarding it for decades
THE MAN WHO DREW WELLINGTON In 1889, Thomas Ward proposed something new for the nascent capital city : a really, really, really good map.
MAKING TRACKS Moa once walked all over Aotearoa, pressing heavy feet into mud and sand. Eons later, finding just one of these footprints intact is a small miracle.
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