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Tui

On our first evening at Coromandel we were on a beach in a little cove surrounded by some large rain forest covered hills. It was deathly quiet as we walked around.

Occasionally we heard some random musical notes playing out loud.

At first I thought it was some child in one of the few local houses, maybe practicing some sort of weird musical instrument.

After a while we decided it was a bird and later we Googled it.

It turns out it was one of these, a Tui.

It became the music of our holiday, I absolutely loved the sound and for me the sound of New Zealand. Some days we woke up to it!

 

If you want to hear it :-

The start of this is all Tui, crazy birds, whistles, cackles and snorts :-)

Chill out out it.....

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhvCsYFZ0vQ

 

Apparently they can mimic other birds as well, if I ever come back as a bird ......

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Uploaded on November 17, 2017
Taken on October 13, 2017