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7 de mar. de 2012 · When The Mutton Birds formed in Auckland in 1991, its members had already achieved varying degrees of recognition within the New Zealand music scene. Initially viewed as the group’s clear leader, singer-songwriter Don McGlashan was also the best-known member. Wayne Mason and The Mutton Birds perform Nature at the 2001 APRA Silver Scrolls.
One of Port Fairy’s most spectacular summer sights is the arrival of the mutton birds, or short-tailed shearwaters, at sunset each day on Griffith Island. Towards the end of September each year the annual migration of the short-tailed shearwaters, or mutton birds, arrives on Griffiths Island from their far flung journey in the northern hemisphere.
From the album 'Envy Of Angels' (Virgin Records, 1997)www.areligionofakind.co.uk
The Muttonbird or Short-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris, only breeds in Australia and is probably Australia's most abundant seabird. It is a circum-Pacific migrant ranging to the Antarctic Circle in the breeding season and to the far North Pacific Ocean in the non-breeding season. In Tasmania approximately 18 million birds breed in 211 ...
muttonbird, any of several shearwaters (oceanic bird species), whose chicks are harvested commercially for meat and oil. The species principally utilized are the short-tailed, or slender-billed, shearwater (Puffinus tenuirostris), in Australia and Tasmania, and the sooty shearwater (P. griseus), in New Zealand.Certain of the large petrels (Pterodroma species) are also harvested occasionally ...
Muttonbirds, or sooty shearwaters, are known to Māori as tītī. Millions of these seabirds live on the islands scattered around Rakiura (Stewart Island), at the southern tip of New Zealand. The birds are dark brown, and about the size of a duck. They nest in burrows. Valued by Māori as food, the birds are said to taste like mutton (sheep meat).
