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title: "Up in \"them thar hills\": the discovery of the mountain breeding sites of Hutton's Shearwater"
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# Up in "them thar hills": the discovery of the mountain breeding sites of Hutton's Shearwater

"Snow birds" by Rebekah White in the [*New Zealand Geographic*](https://www.nzgeo.com/) is a good read.  Just [click here](https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/snow-birds/).

  ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Shearwaters/Shearwaters/Huttons_Shearwater.jpg)

 Hutton's Shearwater

 Read [earlier postings](http://www.acap.aq/en/search14?q=Hutton%27s) to *ACAP Latest News* on New Zealand's endemic and globally [Endangered](http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/22698252) [Hutton's Shearwater](http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/huttons-shearwater) *Puffinus huttoni*.  Click [here](http://www.acap.aq/en/search14?q=Hutton%27s+earthquake)for two *ALN* postings on the likely effects of the November 2016 earthquake on the bird's two mountain breeding sites.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Infomation Officer, 15 March 201*7