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Bellbird bands
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Bellbird partaking of the yellow gold, nectar that is. Bellbird bands.
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Tui are so common these days that I forget to record them. Even on hill sides covered with gorse and barberry with a mixture of regenerating natives (tree ferns, mahoe, other broadleaf) there will be the odd tui. But if it wasn't for the barberry in flower, they'd only have the sparse few fuschia to feed from.
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Tui are so common these days that I forget to record them. Even on hill sides covered with gorse and barberry with a mixture of regenerating natives (tree ferns, mahoe, other broadleaf) there will be the odd tui. But if it wasn't for the barberry in flower, they'd only have the sparse few fuschia to feed from.
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Tui feeding from darwins barberry flowers. Not the best quality, but video from a 2004 vintage point and shoot camera isn't that hot :-)
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Tui supping at Kowhai flower.
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Tui supping on fuchsia flowers.
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A species in it's twilight years, or scheming to take over the earth?
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Guilty about its preference for barberry, the scourge of Wright's Hill, this tui was very weary about the strange clicking and wiring noises from behind a nearby bush. Suspecting that it was the subject of covert surveillance by the GCSB (Global Conspiracy Spying on Birds), it made a quick exit.
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You have to look closely (I've included a zoom in, but even then it might be something else with a yellow (flax pollen?) smudge on its forehead)
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You have to look closely (I've included a zoom in, but even then it might be something else with a yellow (flax pollen?) smudge on its forehead)
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You have to look closely (I've included a zoom in, but even then it might be something else with a yellow (flax pollen?) smudge on its forehead)
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Another tui that's finding plenty of flax nectar action.
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