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Seabird geniusNeville Peat

Seabird genius

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"The first biography of Lance Richdale, who achieved international fame as the father of Otago’s albatross colony from 1936 and for his research on the behaviour of the Yellow-eyed Penguin - Time magazine dubbed him ‘The Dr Kinsey of the penguin world’ - and the sooty shearwater, or muttonbird. Richdale grew up in Wanganui, took a tertiary course in agriculture in New South Wales, and returned to New Zealand to teach mainly in rural schools in the North Island for several years, eventually taking up a position with the Otago Education Board in 1928 as an inspiring itinerant agricultural…

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  • Other · English · 2011
    Otago University Press · 288 pages · 9781877578113
OrnithologistsBiographyYellow-eyed penguinNorthern royal albatrossSouthern royal albatrossTeachersSea birdsResearch