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Bird-lovers give Canterbury the deformed duck a wheelie cool trolley

4/2/2018

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Canterbury the deformed duck was given a new lease on life this weekend, thanks to a cart built by "Duck Man" Craig Shepherd.
Canterbury the duck will live to another quack another day.

​The deformed duck from Oxford, in the region that gave him his name, has grabbed the sympathy of bird-lovers...
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Duck rescue turns into body recovery at Tokoroa lake

18/4/2017

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From left Wellington Bird Rehabilitation Trust's Joe Knowles, South Waikato District Council compliance officer Brooke Paul and Wellington Bird Rehabilitation Trust's Courtenay Ashton Thomas at Tokoroa's Lake Moananui.
A Wellington Bird Rehabilitation Trust vet nurse has described the extent of avian botulism at Tokoroa's Lake Moananui as the worst she has ever seen.
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For months dozens of ducks have been dying from the paralytic disease...
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Rescue mission for dying ducks

5/4/2017

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Craig Shepherd from the Wellington Bird Rehabilitation Trust.
A rescue mission is underway to save Tokoroa ducks that are dying in their droves from botulism.
​Dozens of ducks at Lake Moananui have been...
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He needed to see a quack: Injured duck seeks paramedics' help

13/1/2017

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Kevin Grant - with friend - is recuperating at Craig Shepherd's bird sanctuary.
It was like a scene from a movie: Kevin Grant stumbled into the ambulance bay moments after being hit by a car.
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Only, this was no movie and Kevin Grant was a duck.
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Nesting wild bird shot 'by some sick coward' on Kapiti lifestyle property

14/10/2016

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The shattered wing of the spur-winged plover. The bird had been shot by a slug gun.
The "senseless maiming" of a wild bird has "destroyed the innocence" of a teenage girl who watched over the plover, its mate and their chicks.

Neil Attridge said his family were delighted when a pair of "funny looking birds" chose their Kapiti Coast lifestyle property as a...
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Birds of a feather: killer pukekos, robo-duck and a queer goose all at home with Wellington 'duckman'

4/8/2016

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Craig Shepherd says his work rehabilitating birds is more love than labour.
Every morning Thomas the bisexual goose is carried from his aviary and placed next to a fenced pond at the front of Craig Shepherd's property.
The 33-year-old bird is completely blind and has lived at the Ohariu...
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Good Sorts: Craig Shepherd

13/4/2014

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Craig Shepherd loves ducks so much so he has adopted 400 of them.
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Duck gets beak of steel

12/7/2012

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Bionic beak: Birdcage mesh is wired around the duck's beak like a set of braces.
A Kapiti "roboduck" has a steel-reinforced beak after apparent world first surgery using birdcage mesh.
The mallard was rescued by Wellington SPCA's...
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