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media type="custom" key="10115325" media type="youtube" key="wh2bUyzk0no" height="314" width="504" //**SPECIAL FEATURES**// //**Maori name for the Blue Duck is: Whio.**// //**They have large webbed feet for strong currents in the rivers that they live by.**// //**They are camouflaged in the wet river rocks.**// //**They're average territory is about 1.5km depending on food and space.**// //**They have strange and special blue scrapers on their bills and have rubber-like lips to scrape insect larvae off rocks.**// //**Blue Ducks have grey blue feathers and a chestnut brown chest.**// //**Blue Ducks malt!**// //**Males weigh about 1,000 grams and can live up to about 12 years.**// //**Females weigh about 750 grams and live much shorter lives.**// //**Males make a fee-o fee-o sound.**// //**Females make a growling noise.**// //**They nest in August and October, Females lay about 4-9 creamy white eggs.**// //**The nest in hollow logs, small caves and other sheltered places.**// //**The Blue Duck is on the New Zealand $10 note.**//

//**WHY ARE BLUE DUCKS ENDANGERED?**// <span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**European records suggest the Blue Ducks were once throughout New Zealand.**// <span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**Reasons they are endangered is because of :**// <span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**pollution, less water, habitat loss, lots of predators eating eggs and chicks and in 1995 Mt Ruapehu blew up so Blue Ducks population tumbled because**// //**sulphur went into rivers nearby.**//

<span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**HOW TO HELP THEM....**// <span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**By planting trees and shrubs to reduce mud and dirt slipping into the rivers.**// <span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**Providing nesting places for the females to lay eggs.**// <span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**Taking Whio into protected rivers. **// <span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**Trapping stoats.**// <span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**If you see the Blue Duck please ring the DOC on- 64 7 315 1011**// <span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**please include - Where ,When and amount seen .....**//

<span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**Please help save the the Blue Duck from extinction and for future generations!!!!**// <span style="color: #5b98a9; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">//**By Maddison Trousselot and Brooke Ha**////**wes.**//

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