COURTENAY, B.C. Staff and students at Mark R. Isfeld Secondary in Courtenay were shocked and excited to see a mama duck and her ducklings set up a home in the school’s courtyard. The female mallard and her six babies were discovered Thursday along with a nest inside a cedar bush. “The amazing thing is, because they take 28 days to incubate she was here for a month without anyone knowing,” says Larry Green, a math and science teacher at the school. The new classmates have been become a big hit at the school. “Usually the windows are just packed with students trying to get a glimpse,” adds Green. “It’s just all ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs.’ It’s very, very cute.”
Success for entangled Napier penguin s hunger for the wild
4 May, 2021 11:40 PM
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Rebekah Cuthbert, National Aquarium supervisor birds, releases the latest rehabilitated penguin to the Napier Port kororā sanctuary. Photo / Supplied
Rebekah Cuthbert, National Aquarium supervisor birds, releases the latest rehabilitated penguin to the Napier Port kororā sanctuary. Photo / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
The story of the kororā (little penguin) found tangled in a fishing line two weeks ago has had a happy ending.
On Monday he was released to the Napier Port kororā sanctuary by Rebekah Cuthbert, National Aquarium of New Zealand supervisor birds, and Liv Flynn of Hawke s Bay Bird and Wildlife Rescue Charitable Trust.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats’ campaign has been focused on depriving the SNP of a majority so Holyrood can focus on a Covid recovery rather than independence.
Party leader Willie Rennie has said he believes that an SNP failure to deliver a parliamentary majority at the election should mean the party “puts aside” its plans for another referendum for at least five years to instead focus on recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
The message is very similar to that of Scottish Labour, which is also calling for a focus on recovery rather than a return to “divisions” over the constitution.
But Mr Rennie has argued that “Liberal Democrat seats are the ones that will make the difference” to depriving the nationalists of a majority and suggested that his party is on course to add to the five MSPs elected in 2016.