The Lookout

Cast bronze on timber base
Ed 2 of 7
190 x 270 x 110
Base 15 x 15 x 22cm

Our native quail Koreke was extinct by 1875, having met a dramatic decline through the introduction of cats, rats, along side sport hunting. The Look Out is a California or Sentinel Quail, introduced in the 1860s as game birds. In a rare example of an introduced species causing no harm to the new environment, the California Quail slipped happily and successfully into the same habitat as its native predecessors.