It took its name partly from the nearby Cane Hill asylum and partly from the nearby Stoats Nest village.

Predators include Weasels, Stoats, and small raptors such as the Merlin and nest predators such as crows and magpies.

Stoats, rabbits, mice, rats, cats and hedgehogs remained a problem on the island, but the Department of Conservation ( DOC ) aimed to eradicate them beginning with the poisoning of black rats, brown rats and mice and in August 2011, both Rangitoto and neighbouring Motutapu Islands were officially declared pest-free with both islands now also boasting populations of newly-translocated saddlebacks.

Stoats may prey on young hares.

In an 1896 study of the LB & SCR passenger services, J. Pearson Pattinson described the eight-and-a-quarter miles of shared track between Redhill and Stoats Nest ( Coulsdon ) as being ' in a state of the utmost congestion, and detentions of the Brighton expresses, blocked by South Eastern stopping trains, are as constant as irritating.

* Stoats Nest for Coulsdon and Cane Hill ( later Coulsdon North ) was opened on 8 November 1899, by the LB & SCR on their Quarry Line which bypassed Redhill.

Stoats were the main cause of death of nesting adult females, nestlings and fledglings, but possums were also important predators of adult females, eggs and nestlings.

* Stoats and weasels are liberated as a misguided attempt to control rabbits.

There had been a previous Stoats Nest station in the area which was opened by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway in 1841, but this had closed in 1856.

At the time of the new Stoats Nests ' opening, it was the second station operating in the area, Coulsdon South ( then named " Coulsdon ") having been opened by the SER on 1 October 1889.

The LBSCR equipped the new Stoats Nest station with 4 platforms: two on the Quarry Line and two terminal platforms with through access only to sidings beyond the station.

The London and Brighton Railway ( L & BR ) constructed the new line during 1840 and 1841, with the South Eastern Railway ( SER ) contributing half of the construction cost and taking ownership of the section between Stoats Nest, Coulsdon, and Redhill.

The Sumerian king Ur-Nammu ( 2112 – 2095 BC ) cleared the Gutians from Mesopotamia during his reign.

Following the Greek War of Independence, most post-Byzantine features were cleared from the site as part of a Hellenizing project that swept the new nation-state.

In 1890 and 1893, Staes cleared out certain less rich tholos-tombs at Thoricus in Attica ; and other graves, either rock-cut " bee-hives " or chambers, were found at Spata and Aphidna in Attica, in Aegina and Salamis, at the Argive Heraeum and Nauplia in the Argolid, near Thebes and Delphi, and not far from the Thessalian Larissa.

In addition, Deccan Trap volcanism might have resulted in carbon dioxide emissions that increased the greenhouse effect when the dust and aerosols cleared from the atmosphere.

Two of the most notable differences are that the balls are always played in the same sequence ( blue, red, black, yellow ) throughout the game, and that a ball's " deadness " on other balls is carried over from turn to turn until the ball has been " cleared " by scoring its next hoop.

The Minister for Finance, Jack McConnell, was called to appear before the standards committee during the investigation although he was later cleared of any wrongdoing and the committee declared there was no evidence he had been influenced from lobbying by Beattie Media.

With the Luftwaffe largely cleared from the skies, Allied fighters increasingly served as attack aircraft.

Later explorers reported massive piles of rubble at the base of the pyramids left over from the continuing collapse of the casing stones, which were subsequently cleared away during continuing excavations of the site.

Ground for a rudimentary aircraft landing area was cleared during the mid-1930s, in anticipation that the island might eventually be used as a stopover for a commercial trans-Pacific air route and also to further U. S. territorial claims in the region against rival claims from Great Britain.

They cleared many of their people from the land, and set up highly profitable agricultural practices.

In the 1935 World Series umpire George Moriarty warned some Chicago Cubs players to stop yelling anti-Semitic slurs at Greenberg and eventually cleared the players from the Cubs bench.

A crude aircraft landing area was cleared on the northeast side of the island, and a T-shaped marker which was intended to be seen from the air was made from gathered stones, but no airplane is known to have ever landed there.

A new battalion, 1st Kenya Rifles, was created entirely from 340 Lanet soldiers who had been cleared of participation in the mutiny by the Kenyan Criminal Investigations Division ( CID ).

One year after the events of Infinite Crisis, Luthor has been cleared of over 120 criminal counts ranging from malfeasance to first-degree murder relating to the New Year's Eve massacre from 52.

Next, the midwives cleared away any and all mucus present from the nose, mouth, ears, or anus.

Where larger particles would have been cleared from the body, cells take up these nanoparticles because of their size.

If a drug is cleared too quickly from the body, this could force a patient to use high doses, but with drug delivery systems clearance can be reduced by altering the pharmacokinetics of the drug.

Penicillin is actively excreted, and about 80 % of a penicillin dose is cleared from the body within three to four hours of administration.

These have a distinct plant and animal life from the main island but the natural forest has been cleared in places for logging and agriculture.

If the pole used by the athlete dislodges the bar from the uprights, a foul attempt is ruled, even if the athlete themselves has cleared the height.

The expression Anspruch (§ 194 of BGB )-meaning " claim "-has been " cleared " from procedural elements.

For example, in the two famous Kinsman Transit cases from the 2nd Circuit ( exercising admiralty jurisdiction over a New York incident ), it was clear that mooring a boat improperly could lead to the risk of a boat drifting away and crashing into another boat, and that both boats could crash into a bridge, which collapsed and blocked the river, and in turn, the wreckage could flood the land adjacent to the river, as well as prevent any traffic from traversing the river until it had been cleared.

Continuing to the south of Victoria Island, the ship cleared the Canadian Arctic Archipelago on 17 August 1905, but had to stop for the winter before going on to Nome on the Alaska District's Pacific coast.

In 1800, an English settler from Rhode Island named Asa Mann cleared a large amount of forest, and in 1804 laid out the plan for a town on this estate — Mann's field.

On 14 December 1941, after delays due to bad weather, the task force cleared Pearl Harbor as a diversion for an expedition under Rear Admiral Frank J. Fletcher in Saratoga ( CV 3 ) to relieve Wake Island.

Called D, the film focuses on the 19th-century Dreyfus Affair, in which one of the few Jewish members of the French Army general staff was unjustly convicted of passing secrets to the Germans and sent to Devil's Island, before finally being cleared 12 years later.

Massive deforestation occurred in the North Island at this time, particularly in the lowlands of southern Hawkes Bay, the Manawatu and the Wairarapa, as land was cleared by European settlers for agriculture.

Elements cleared Arundel Island, 24 September 1943, and Kolombangara island with its important Vila Airport, 6 October.

The Strangites cleared land, built cabins, farms and other improvements, and sought to establish themselves as a permanent presence on Beaver Island.

Cockatoo Island rose to above sea level and is now cleared of most vegetation.

However in October 1971 the New Zealand Government proposed to harvest large areas of native South Island lowland beech forest with half the cleared area to be converted to exotic Pinus radiata.

In August 2009, the company cleared out their miles of salt stockpiles in order to host a free celebration, giving back to the people of Staten Island.

The original name Mustasaari " Black Island " may have been a medieval island cleared by a wildfire or an island that looks dark when approaching from the sea.

During the period when the island was occupied by the Māori, as much as a third of the Island was cleared of forest.

This area – called Victoria Island Annex – was then cleared and sold to residential buyers.

In the past, rides cleared from Flamingo Land for new development were installed at Pleasure Island.

Despite being cleared for active duty at the end of Scarecrow, Schofield is considered to be a liability by the Corps, a ' broken ' Marine, and becomes a teacher at Parris Island.

The city would connect it to Randall's Island just to the north by filling Little Hell Gate and it would be cleared for playing fields and promenades.

But by the fourth season premiere of Spider-Man, when Tombstone was incarcerated in Rooker's Island, he teamed up with Richard Fisk to have Robbie framed, but Spider-Man and J. Jonah Jameson cleared his name.

With the southern Island finally cleared the attack was extended to Hiiumaa, the northern Island on 12 October.

A Rhode Island Superior Court jury, however, cleared the dentist of the charges.