Tūī

Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

The tūī is a medium-sized bird native to New Zealand. It is blue, green, and bronze coloured with a distinctive white throat tuft (poi). It is an endemic passerine bird of New Zealand, and the only species in the genus Prosthemadera. It is one of the largest species in the diverse Australasian honeyeater family Meliphagidae, and one of two living species of that family found in New Zealand, the other being the New Zealand bellbird. The tūī has a wide distribution in the archipelago, ranging from the subtropical Kermadec Islands to the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands, as well as the main islands.

Ko te tūī he manu ngahere nō Aotearoa, hopukia ai hei mōkai i ngā wā o mua. He manu nui, he kārikipango mōhinuhinu, he mā ngā peruperu. Ko ngā waireka o ngā pua te kai; ko te korimako, ko te hihi, me te tūī ngā manu o Aotearoa he waireka pua tā rātou kai. Ko te ingoa pūtaiao ko Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae.

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