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They were introduced to the Northeastern United States in the late 19th century as ornaments on the ponds of wealthy estates and in zoos and aviculture collections, before making their way into the wild.

Multiple emails and documents, obtained under freedom of information laws, reveal that the Australian department and the former environment minister Josh Frydenberg were warned by the aviculture industry and the MP Warren Entsch that the purpose of the imports was not zoo exhibition, but trade.

Six of the flock laid nine eggs, which Mark Roberts, the aviculture manager at the reserve, called “a wonderful and welcome surprise.”

Mark Roberts, the aviculture manager at the Slimbridge reserve, says “with the Andeans in full parenting mode, we gave them Chilean chicks to bring up as their own. It’s great motivation and enriching for the birds.”

He praised the system as “one of the most interesting experiments in combined bird protection and aviculture that England has produced.”