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Song of Protest
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1986
The judges (among them, the great English filmmaker Ken Loach, and popular English author and zoologist, Desmond Morris), particularly commented on the creative use of Hirini's music.– Rod Morris on the judge's comments on Hirini Melbourne's music, at 1986 nature festival Wildscreen
Perhaps the kōkako's song is prophetic: our greatest songbird is also our rarest. We've been systematically dismantling its forest home.– Narrator Donald Evans
Chicks in the nest are easy prey for wild cats or tree climbing rats and stoats. At two and a half weeks they're already beginning to develop the strong legs so vital for springing and scurrying through the trees, yet stronger wings would suit them better in today's forest.– Narrator Donald Evans
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