New Zealand Kereru, Native Pigeon.
One of New Zealand's most beautiful native birds, the Kereu, our Native Pigeon, often called ' the wood pigeon'.
This large bird, is a shy bird, perhaps due to it's weight, and heavy flight..Often not trusting of humans or animals, this bird is difficult to video during eating .
This particular bird, was filmed in my back yard, on Feb 9th 2014, enjoying, a non native meal, of Dracenia berries.. They are renowned for 'gorging until drunk' and are truly one of our most beautiful birds to grace ones back yard.
The New Zealand Pigeon or kererū (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae) is a bird endemic to New Zealand. Māori call it Kererū in most of the country but kūkupa and kūkū in some parts of the North Island, particularly in Northland. New Zealand pigeons are commonly called wood pigeons but are not the same as the Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus), which is a member of a different genus.
The New Zealand Pigeon belongs to the family Columbidae, and the subfamily Treroninae, which is found throughout Southeast Asia, Malaya, Africa and New Zealand. The members of this subfamily feed largely on fruits, mainly drupes.[2] New Zealand Pigeons are members of the pigeon genus Hemiphaga (Bonaparte, 1854), which is endemic to the New Zealand archipelago and Norfolk Island. However recently a Hemiphaga bone was found on Raoul Island.[3] The Chatham Pigeon or Chatham Island Pigeon (Hemiphaga chathamensis) is traditionally considered a subspecies of the Kererū, but is here treated as a separate species.
The New Zealand Pigeon is a large, 550--850 grams (19--30 oz), arboreal fruit-pigeon[4] found in forests from Northland to Stewart Island/Rakiura, ranging in habitats from coastal to montane.[5] The general morphology is that of a typical pigeon, in that it has a relatively small head, a straight soft-based bill and loosely attached feathers. It also displays typical pigeon behaviour, which includes drinking by suction, a wing-threat display, hitting with the wing when threatened, a diving display flight, a 'bowing' display, ritualised preening and 'billing' during courtship
The New Zealand Pigeons are commonly regarded as frugivorous, primarily eating fruits from native trees. They play an important ecological role, as they are the only birds capable of eating the largest native fruits and drupes (those with smallest diameter greater than 1 cm), such as those of the taraire, and thus spreading the seeds intact.[11] While fruit comprises the major part of their diets, the New Zealand Pigeon also browses on leaves and buds, especially nitrogen rich foliage during breeding.
Since the extinction of the moa, the native pigeon is now the only seed disperser with a bill big enough to swallow large fruit, such as those of karaka, tawa and taraire.
It also eats leaves, buds and flowers, the relative amounts varying seasonally and regionally, e.g. in Northland the birds eat mostly fruit.
Kererū are large birds and can measure up to 51 cm from tail to beak, and weigh about 650g.
Long-lived birds, they breed slowly. Key breeding signals are spectacular display flights performed mainly by territorial males. They nest mainly in spring/early summer producing only one egg per nest, which the parents take turns to look after during the 28-day incubation period.Wood pigeons can drink without raising their heads to swallow, which is unusual for a bird. They are the only native bird large enough to eat the big fruit of some of our important native forest trees. As the abundance and distribution of wood pigeon declines the distribution of the seed from these trees, such as tawa, miro karaka, taraire, and puriri will be limited
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The Kiwi The National Bird Of New Zealand Is In Danger of Becoming Extinct Without The Help Of Conservationists.
Kiwis are flightless Birds native To New Zealand, In The Genus Apteryx and Family Apterygidae. Approximately The Size Of A Domestic Chicken, Kiwi Are By Far The Smallest Living ratites (Which Also Consist Of Ostriches, Emus, Rheas, And Cassowaries).
1. The Brown Kiwi /North Island Kiwi
2. Great Spotted Kiwi / Roroa
3. Little Spotted Kiwi
4. Rowi Kiwi / Southern North Island Kiwi
5. Manukura - The White Kiwi
6. Tokoeka Kiwi
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(Apteryx mantelli)
Brown Kiwi have a big nose, short temper and brown, spiky plumage.
All brown kiwi live in the North Island. Four geographically and genetically distinct forms have been identified: Northland, Coromandel, western (mainly Taranaki/Wanganui) and eastern (mainly Hawkes Bay, Bay of Plenty and East Cape).
A distinct form of little spotted kiwi used to live throughout the North Island, but became extinct in the late 1800s.
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(Apteryx haastii)
The great spotted kiwi is the tallest kiwi species, at about 45 centimetres tall. This Birds are rugged mountaineers with soft, mottled grey-brown plumage.
Today, they are found in three discrete natural populations – northwest Nelson, the Paparoa Range, and near Arthur’s Pass. Birds have also been transferred to Lake Rotoiti mainland island, in Nelson Lakes National Park.
It is thought great spotted kiwi have been in part protected by the high altitudes they live in. The harsh conditions make it tough going for the dogs, cats, ferrets and stoats that would otherwise prey on them.
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(Apteryx owenii)
Little spotted kiwi is the smallest kiwi species – about the size of a bantam hen. Their plumage is pale mottled grey and shaggy.
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(Apteryx rowi)
The rowi was only identified as a distinct kiwi species in 2003. Before then, it was thought to be a variety of brown kiwi.While similar in size to brown kiwi, rowi are distinguished by soft and slightly greyish plumage, and occasional white facial feathers.
Rowi are New Zealand’s rarest kiwi species, with an estimated population of 500 birds. While one of the three tokoeka taxa has an even smaller population (Haast tokoeka are estimated to total just 400), the whole tokoeka species is estimated to number nearly 26,000.
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Manukura - The World's Only White Kiwi
Manukura is a white kiwi bird - the only known white kiwi in the world! She was born at the National Wildlife Centre Pukaha, in the Wairarapa region of the North Island of New Zealand, on 1 May 2011.
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(Apteryx australis)
Tokoeka kiwi are thought to be the ancestral type of brown-coloured kiwi. There are three distinct geographical forms, known as taxa:1.Haast tokoeka 2.Fiordland tokoeka 3.Rakiura (Stewart Island) tokoeka.
Except for Haast tokoeka, the other two taxa are generally larger than brown kiwi, and some can grow as big as the great spotted kiwi.
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Kiwi Birds Eat Mostly Small Invertebrates, Especially Earthworms And Larvae Of Beetles, Cicadas And Moths; They Also Eat Centipedes, Spiders, Crickets, Weta And Freshwater Crayfish. Some Fallen Fruit And Leaves Are Eaten.
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There are about 68,000 kiwi left. We're losing 2% of our unmanaged kiwi every year – that's around 20 per week. Kiwi are ratites. The closest relatives to kiwi today is the elephant bird from Madagascar.
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The main breeding season runs from June to March, when food is most plentiful. The exception is brown kiwi in the North Island, which can lay eggs in any month. In captivity, male kiwi can reach sexual maturity at 18 months, and females can lay their first eggs when about three years old.
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The Mutton Birds of Bass Strait (1956)
The Mutton Bird (Puffinus tenuirostris) has been the basis of a successful, if little-known, Tasmanian industry for more than a century. Each year millions of fledglings are harvested for their carcasses and oil.
In 1947, in an attempt to assess how long rookeries could withstand such losses, the Fauna Board of Tasmania joined forces with CSIRO to investigate the mutton bird''s life history. The bird''s fantastic migration was one of the most interesting facts they uncovered. The huge flocks that cross the Pacific each year to spend the northern summer in Canada and Alaska, return to their Bass Strait breeding grounds on almost the same day each year.
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Kaka, Nestor meridionalis, is a parrot endemic of the forest to New Zealand. There are two subspecies, Kaka North Island, Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis, and Kaka South Island, N. m. meridionalis. Kaka said in Māori language means parrot. The Kaka or forest parrot ( Nestor meridionalis ) is next to the Kea, the second still living species of Nestor. The genus currently consists of two types, which in New Zealand occur. A third type, the Norfolk kaka, lived until the mid 19th century on the Norfolk Island thereof north and northeast.
The Kaka is a parrot of about 40 cm in length. The color of the plumage prevail on the neck, back, chest, and on top of the wing browns before. The belly, the underside of the wings and a bond between the neck and back are reddish, forehead and top dyed gray-white. In the male the beak is more curved than in the female.
The explosive growth of introduced European wasps typologies (now the Common Wasp ), who also live from energy-rich honeydew of scale insects, and insects, has the basic food of Kakas so scarce that they are permanently seriously endangered, it should not succeed, the stock of Commons wasps to reduce critical.
Through the introduction of the New Zealand-based originally not weasel Kaka is even more vulnerable, because these predators regularly fall victim in a breeding cycle many nesting in tree hollows Kaka females. In the National Park Eglinton Valley on New Zealand's South Island, where Kakas were fitted with transmitters 2008 could be detected using this data and calculations in a study that Kakas only have a chance of survival if still the same number of ermine traps like since the beginning of the 90s is set up. In Europe Kakas only in the Stuttgart Wilhelma held.
The Kakapo ( Strigops habroptilus ) is a parrot, which in New Zealand is located. He is the only kind of subfamily Strigopinae (Owls Parrots). The nocturnal bird is a herbivore substantially. He is the only known flightless parrot. The kakapo is critically endangered. Kakapo have a so-called face veil ; that is, the face is surrounded by fine feathers, as for owl is typical. In this way, the Latin species name explains Strigops (Latin straw Owl ops face). The European immigrants to New Zealand Kakapo and therefore called the owl parrot. The beak beak surrounded fine bristles, which at night obstacles are located. The ends of the tail feathers are mostly worn as they are constantly being pulled along the ground.
Kakapo parrots are very large; adult males measure up to 60 inches and weigh between three and four kilograms. The wings are relatively small, and they lack the amplified breast bone ( sternum ), where the strong flight muscles of other birds attaches. They use their wings only to balance and to decelerate their case when they jump down from trees. Unlike other land birds kakapo can store large amounts of depot fat.
The beak of the Kakapo is suitable to crush food very fine. Kakapo have small goiters. The feet are large and scaly and have like all parrots, two front and two rear-facing toes. Their strong claws are adapted to climbing ( adaptation ). One of the unusual characteristics of the Kakapo is their strong but pleasant smell, the smell of flowers and honey or beeswax similar.
Kaka does not breed every year, but every two to four years. After investigation it has been found that this has to do with the cycle dependence of the fruit of the trees of the genus Nothofagus. In the years that these trees bloom and develop a large amount of seeds are the kaka and his boy secured a large food supply. In this time it also comes regularly to broods.
Kaka feeds on fruits, berries, seeds, flowers, buds, nectar and invertebrates. The bird has a brush tongue with which he feeds on nectar, and he used his powerful beak to the larvae of longhorn beetles excavate. Kaka is a medium sized parrot that is about 45 inches tall and weighs approximately 550 g. He is closely related to the kea ( Nestor notabilis ), but Kaka has a darker plumage and lives more in the trees.
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Kiwi bird
This is called a kiwi bird.
Kiwi
Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand, in the genus Apteryx and family Apterygidae. At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites (which also consist of ostriches, emus, rheas, and cassowaries), and lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world. DNA sequence comparisons have yielded the surprising conclusion that kiwi are much more closely related to the extinct Malagasy elephant birds than to the moa they shared New Zealand with. There are five recognised species, two of which are currently vulnerable, one of which is endangered, and one of which is critically endangered. All species have been negatively affected by historic deforestation but currently the remaining large areas of their forest habitat are well protected in reserves and national parks. At present, the greatest threat to their survival is predation by invasive mammalian predators.
The kiwi is a national symbol of New Zealand, and the association is so strong that the term Kiwi is used in some parts of the world as the colloquial demonym for New Zealanders.
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00:08:51 3.2.1 Surface feeding
00:10:40 3.2.2 Pursuit diving
00:12:46 3.2.3 Plunge diving
00:14:15 3.2.4 Kleptoparasitism, scavenging and predation
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00:25:06 4 Relationship with humans
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The eastern rosella (Platycercus eximius) is a rosella local to southeast of the Australian landmass and to Tasmania.
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In The Angry Birds 2, the flightless angry birds and the scheming green piggies take their beef to the next level when a new threat emerges that puts both Bird and Pig Island in danger. Red (Jason Sudeikis), Chuck (Josh Gad), Bomb (Danny McBride), and Mighty Eagle (Peter Dinklage) recruit Chuck’s sister Silver (Rachel Bloom) and team up with several pigs - Leonard (Bill Hader), his assistant Courtney (Awkwafina), and techpig Garry (Sterling K. Brown) - to forge an unsteady truce and form an unlikely super-team to save their homes.
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The Angry Birds Movie 2
In The Angry Birds 2, the flightless angry birds and the scheming green piggies take their beef to the next level when a new threat emerges that puts both Bird and Pig Island in danger. Red (Jason Sudeikis), Chuck (Josh Gad), Bomb (Danny McBride), and Mighty Eagle (Peter Dinklage) recruit Chuck’s sister Silver (Rachel Bloom) and team up with several pigs - Leonard (Bill Hader), his assistant Courtney (Awkwafina), and techpig Garry (Sterling K. Brown) - to forge an unsteady truce and form an unlikely super-team to save their homes.