NZ Ecology

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Across
  1. 2. excellent hunters that were brought to New Zealand with people as pets
  2. 3. predator-free ecological sanctuary near Eltham
  3. 5. palm tree endemic to New Zealand
  4. 6. European rodents that arrived with early settlers
  5. 8. blue/grey coloured endemic songbird
  6. 10. Pacific rat that arrived in NZ with Polynesian voyagers
  7. 11. medium-sized bird with a distinctive copper 'saddle' on its back
  8. 12. large flightless extinct bird
  9. 13. a large insect endemic to New Zealand
  10. 14. a long-eared mammal introduced to NZ in the 1800s for meat and hunting
Down
  1. 1. a predator introduced in 1884 to control rabbits
  2. 4. a nocturnal reptile that has a distinctive crest of spines along its back
  3. 7. marsupial introduced from Australia to establish a fur trade
  4. 9. flightless nocturnal bird
  5. 10. NZ woodpigeon
  6. 11. a large canopy tree that produces large purple fruit