One of the important features of wetland life is predation and georgia's here to tell us about predation, both pre and post contact. Before people came to New Zealand, birds here were adapted to be attacked by other birds and so they had beautiful camouflage but that was about it. They had the disadvantage for them is that they had good camouflage, but they actually smelled quite strongly. Which is fine until Europeans and the Maori brought mammalian predators with them. Mammalian predators often hunt by smell. So no matter how well you camouflage, you can still be smelt. Things really hot in the predator world with the introduction of moustellates and I've got a few here to show you. So here is a weasel. It's the smallest of the moustellates and very very good predator of our birds. Next size up would be this is a animal, it's a stout and you can always tell a stout by its black tip on its tail. Weasel doesn't have that. Probably the number one predator. If we had to put them on a wanted list, this would be top of the list. This swimmer, good climber, very active runs in a whole range of altitude from lowlands up to the mountains. And big numbers of those two are high numbers of these. Yes, right. Top of the size list, probably not top of the predator list is the ferret. I've brought over to New Zealand for its fur. Whereas the other ones were particularly brought over to control rubbett numbers. So all bad predators, but the stout, if any, is the worst. Right you are. And then this one, obviously a different family, the family cat Felix. Still unfortunately dumped out at Christmas when people want new pets. These, if you like wild cats, they are domestic cats but they've gone wild. So they're ferrel cats. So they exactly the same as you've got at home, but you still living wild. Dexon senses and more importantly, they've got a brain. They can actually work out problems, solve them and then make some really really efficient predators indeed. So if you think of those animals, we've just shown you there, our birds don't have a chance. They really don't have a chance. And they're disappearing off the face of New Zealand. That's right. And we desperately need to control these animals if we wish to have our animals, our native birds, left in their own native places. Indeed. Very good predators, but very bad for our native species. And all brought here for apparently good reasons at the time, but not as we think now. Yep, now they've got to go to control. And we do need to control them. Indeed. Well good luck with it George. Thank you very much.