Araara Island

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Araara Island is an island in the Northland Region of New Zealand. It is one of the Hen and Chicken Islands, lying immediately south and east of Mauitaha (West Chicken).

In a 1984 survey the following species were reported: flesh-footed shearwater, sooty shearwater, fluttering shearwater, diving petrel, grey-faced petrel, little shag, Australasian harrier, black-backed gull, white-fronted tern, red-crowned parakeet, New Zealand pipit, New Zealand bellbird, common starling, and common myna. Penguins and black petrels have been reported at a seabird breeding site on Araara Island. The polynesian rat, which preys on eggs and hatchlings, has been reported on Araara.

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