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A feral cat that destroyed a large black-fronted tern colony on Canterbury's Waiau Toa/Clarence River has finally been caught.
The tom cat killed and ate several adult tern, chicks and eggs, resulting in birds abandoning almost all 95 nests on an island in the river last December.
Black-fronted terns or tarapirohe are endangered with an estimated population of less than 10,000 birds and declining.
Last week contractors Jasen and Shannon Mears of J & S Mears carried out a leg-hold tr
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