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Taken earlier when the flax, or harakeke, were still in flower.
Tui, one of New Zealand's native honeyeaters, are important pollinators of native forest flowers. They are intelligent, aggressively territorial, and are said to be able to imitate the calls of nearly every other bird, as well as a vast array of other sounds.
Tui are boisterous, medium-sized, common and widespread bird of forest and suburbia – unless you live in Canterbury. They look black from a distance, but in good light tui have a blue, green and bronze iridescent sheen, and distinctive white throat tufts (poi). They are usually very vocal, with a complicated mix of tuneful notes interspersed with coughs, grunts and wheezes. In flight, their bodies slant with the head higher than the tail, and their noisy whirring flight is interspersed with short glides.
Identification
Tui have almost-black heads, underparts, wings and tails that have an iridescent blue and green sheen, especially on the head and wings. The upper back and flanks are dark reddish brown with a bronze sheen, the nape and sides of the neck have filamentous white feathers, and there are two unusual curled white feather tufts on the throat (poi). Small white patches shoulder patches on the upperwing show prominently in flight, but are usually concealed when perched. The bill and feet are black, and the eye dark brown. The sexes are alike, but the male is larger. Adults have a notch on the 8th primary, and this feather quivers from the narrow part creating the whirring sound in flight. At first, juveniles have a browner body and lack the throat tuft, but after a few months they are only distinguishable in the hand from the lack of notch on the 8th primary.
Voice: a loud and complicated mix of tuneful notes interspersed with coughs, grunts and wheezes. In flight, tui maintain contact and harass raptors with a repetitive scream.
Similar species: male blackbirds are uniformly black, lack throat tufts, and have an orange bill. Bellbirds have very similar song, but this is more fluid, and lacks the loud coughs, grunts and wheezes of tui.
Distribution and habitat
Tui are widespread and locally abundant on the North, South and Stewart Islands, and their offshore islands; they are scarce only in drier, largely open, country east of the Southern Alps. Tui are present on the Kermadec and Auckland Islands, and there is a larger subspecies endemic to the Chatham Islands. Tui are absent on the Poor Knights Islands probably due to the very high density of bellbirds there competing for a limited nectar resource. Tui are found in native forest and scrub (sometimes in exotic forests), and in rural gardens, stands of flowering kowhai and gums, and in suburban parks and gardens. There is much local movement, when tui follow a seasonal succession of flowering or fruiting plants. They usually nest in native forest and scrub, but will commute more than 10 km daily to feed on rich sources of nectar.
Population
Tui are locally abundant on the mainland and on some offshore islands, especially where there is a concentration of flowering plants or fruiting trees (e.g. flowering kowhai, fuchsia, flax, rata or gums; or fruiting kahikatea) and generally in higher numbers in areas where there has been pest (possum and predator) control. They are common on the Kermadec and Auckland Islands, but are scarce on the main Chatham Island (they are more common in the southern Chatham Islands).
Threats and conservation
Tui were the most common passerine found in Maori middens and were probably once an important source of protein. Despite the loss of the vast majority of lowland forest in New Zealand, tui have probably benefitted from the introduction to New Zealand of a variety of flowering and fruiting plants. These new species, as well as ‘out-of-range’ plantings of native species and sugar-water feeders in gardens, now provide tui with a reliable year-round supply of nectar and fruit. Tui respond extremely well to pest control programmes targeting possums, rats and mustelids, which are probably their main nest predators.
Recent attempts to reintroduce tui to Banks Peninsula, and Chatham Island tui to Chatham Island (from Rangatira Island), both in 2009-10, are showing encouraging signs of success.
Breeding
Eggs are laid from September to January. The nest, built by the female, is a rough bulky structure of twigs and sticks, lined with fine grasses, high in the canopy or subcanopy. The clutch is 2-4 white or pale pink eggs, marked with reddish-brown spots and blotches. Incubation and brooding is by the female only. Chicks are initially fed only by the female, but later the male helps to feed them.
Behaviour and ecology
Tui are notoriously aggressive, and will defend a flowering or fruiting tree, or a small part of a large tree, from all-comers, whether another tui or another bird species. They vigorously chase other birds away from their feeding territory with loud whirring wings. Tui have a display flight, in which they fly upwards above the canopy, and then make a noisy, near-vertical, dive back into the canopy. Tui play a very important role in the dynamics of New Zealand forests because they are one of the most common pollinators of flowering plants, and also disperse the seeds of trees with medium-sized fruits.
Food
Tui diet varies depending on the seasonal availability of nectar and fruits. Their preferred diet is nectar and honeydew, and they will often shift to, or commute daily or more frequently to, good nectar sources, such as stands of puriri, kowhai, fuchsia, rewarewa, flax, rata, pohutukawa, gums and banksias. In the breeding season, tui supplement their nectar diet with large invertebrates such as cicadas and stick insects obtained by hawking or by gleaning from the outside of trees. In the autumn, medium-sized fruit such as wineberry, kaikomako, mahoe, ngaio, rimu or kahikatea, make up much of the diet. In winter, flowering gums, banksias, puriri, and tree lucerne are important nectar sources, along with sugar-water feeders in gardens.
Websites
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tui_(bird)
www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/birds/land-bi...
Name: Tūī
Scientific: Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
Family: Meliphagidae
Location: Te Anau
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2017): Least Concern
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The Tui's have discovered the oranges I put out for the Silvereyes this morning. At this time of year, when nectar is short they enjoy the sugar from the fruit.
Sitting at my desk, I could hear this guy tweeting, chortling, squeaking, and all the other noises that a tui makes... This was the best shot I could get, hidden in the branches.
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The tui (Māori: tūī; Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) 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, and one of two living species of that family found in New Zealand, the other being the related New Zealand bellbird. The species 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 - Wiki
Tui (a bird native to NZ) in Zealandia a bird sanctuary in Karori,Wellington, NZ. It's a great facility where they fence out all the rats that can kill native birds. This is really important as NZ doesn't have any native land mammals, as a result native birds don't always have defense systems against these mammals.
dth* hem nào :x con cưng của tui đóa :"> dòm nó đáng iu như tui v. :"> =)) ai như ai đó dòm mặt đ.géc khó ưa thấy mồ :-" :)) đừng để ý đằng sau vì gấu bôg mìh quăng tè le hột me hết :)))) chỉ riêng 5 bé cưng này là tối nào mìh cũm ôm ngủ thui :"> hehe tui thíc tui thương tụi nó lắm :-X comt & fav nhé ;)
Anniversary :x 7months :x yay thiệc là thíc :x 26 là Anni màh h tui mới up hình :"> thiệc là có lỗi :d mà chắc ai đó hem nỡ giặn tui đâu hez :-" :"> =)) 215days rùi :-X tui hphúc lắm :"> sẽ mãi ntn mà fk ;;) ? tui hẻm thíc share nhiều trên Flr :p nhất là chuyện tình cũm nữa :"> hihi :x những gì tui mún nói thì nói hết trong tấm thiệp đóa rùi í >:) ai đóa đọc thì tự hiểu đi nho :-> hsmlie :"> hsmlbe :"> hsccetan :x ilu :*
~ Tui thương ai đóa nhất quả đất ♥ ~
thứ năm tuần sau khối tui sẽ đi chơi :"> sẽ chụp nhiều hình lắm đây :"> =)))) màh tui đã đen rùi mà lúc đó còn dang nắng chắc về chồng tui hem nhận ra tui lun =(((( lúc đi phải làm Njnja thui :"> :)))héhé :x
Maori name: Tui
Other names: Parson bird
Scientific name: Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae
Adult birds are about 30cm long. The male is heavier (120g) females about 90g. Appear black but in the light have green, bluish-purple and bronze colouring; a lacy collar of white filaments and white throat tufts; black legs and curved black bill and a white wing bar. Both sexes are alike. Juvenile tui are a dull slate black with glossy wings and tail, a greyish-white throat without the white throat tufts.
From the Zealandia Website
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
New Zealand status: Endemic
Conservation status: Not Threatened
Other names: parson bird, tūī, koko
Geographical variation: Two subspecies are recognised: tui P. n. novaeseelandiae (Not threatened) and Chatham Island tui P. n. chathamensis (Threatened/Nationally Endangered).
A couple of Tui's have returned from adventuring elsewhere over the last few weeks. So good hearing them singing away happily throughout the day.
I noticed the baby Kingfisher (Kotare) was in the tree with a parent who was flying off to get food while the baby chilled. I grabbed the camera to get some shots of the feeding process, but what I captured was unexpected. While the parent was away the resident Tui appeared and was not happy with the baby being in his tree. After sitting on a branch, not to far away and yelling at the baby, who didn't take too much notice, the Tui flew over and landed by the baby who probably didn't understand what was going on. When the baby didn't move the Tui swung underneath and gave it a couple of good pecks to send it on its way. This is a good example of how territorial Tui can be. Nature is not always nice.
A TUI Airlines Belgium Boeing 737-800 taxiing to its gate after landing on Schiphol Airports Polderbaan
Tui is an endemic passerine bird of New Zealand, having a blue, green and bronze iridescent sheen, and distinctive white throat tufts (poi). They are usually very vocal, with a complicated mix of tuneful notes interspersed with coughs, grunts and wheezes.
(nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/tui)
Hasselblad 500C/M | Makro-Planar 120mm | Kodak Portra 400
Tui at Karori Sanctuary Wellington New Zealand.
Amazingly this great shot was taken with an 18-55mm lens! I was photographing the flowers where they overhung the path when the tui landed right beside me and started feeding.
Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae)
an endemic passerine bird of New Zealand. It is one of the largest members of the diverse honeyeater family. The name Tui is from the Maori language name tūī and is the species' formal common name. The plural is simply 'Tui', following Māori usage. The English name, Parson Bird, has fallen into disuse but came about because at first glance the Tui appears completely black except for a small tuft of white feathers at its neck and a small white wing patch, causing it to resemble a parson in religious attire.
On closer inspection it can be seen that Tui have faded browner patches on the back and flanks, a multicoloured iridescent sheen that varies with the angle from which the light strikes them, and a dusting of small, white-shafted feathers on the back and sides of the neck that produce a lacy collar.
Tui are considered to be very intelligent, much like parrots. They also resemble parrots in their ability to clearly imitate human speech, and are known for their noisy, unusual call, different for each individual, that combine bellbird-like notes with clicks, cackles, timber-like creaks and groans, and wheezing sounds—the unusual possession of two voiceboxes enable Tui to perform such a myriad of vocalisations.Some of the huge range of Tui sounds are beyond the human register. Watching a Tui sing, one can observe gaps in the sound when the beak is agape and throat tufts throbbing. Tui will also sing at night, especially around the full moon period. The yellow deposits on the crest of this Tūī are grains of pollen rubbed off from the flowers on which it has been feeding.Nectar is the normal diet but fruit and insects are frequently eaten, and pollen and seeds more occasionally. Particularly popular is the New Zealand flax, whose nectar sometimes ferments, resulting in the Tui flying in a fashion that suggests that they might be drunk. Tui are the main pollinators of flax, kowhai, kaka beak and some other plants. Note that the flowers of the three plants mentioned are similar in shape to the Tui's beak—a vivid example of mutualistic coevolution.
Male Tui can be extremely aggressive, chasing all other birds (large and small) from their territory with loud flapping and sounds akin to rude human speech. This is especially true of other Tui when possession of a favoured feeding tree is impinged. Birds will often erect their body feathers in order to appear larger in an attempt to intimidate a rival. They have even been known to mob harriers and magpies. The powered flight of Tui is quite loud as they have developed short wide wings, giving excellent manoeuverability in the dense forest they prefer, but requiring rapid flapping. They can be seen to perform a mating display of rising at speed in a vertical climb in clear air, before stalling and dropping into a powered dive, then repeating. Much of this behaviour is more notable during the breeding season of early spring—September and October. Females alone build nests of twigs, grasses and mosses.
Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) on a NZ flax plant or Harakeke.
Tui, one of New Zealand's native honeyeaters, are important pollinators of native forest flowers. They are intelligent, aggressively territorial, and are said to be able to imitate the calls of nearly every other bird, as well as a vast array of other sounds.
Total flying distance : 9024 kms
Total flying time : 9.47 hrs
GPS altitude when photographed : 3802 mtrs
Ground speed when photographed : 630 km/h
Climbing/descending rate : +3.6 m/sec
Cockpit outside temperature : -37°C
(flightradar24)
Tui is an endemic passerine bird of New Zealand, having a blue, green and bronze iridescent sheen, and distinctive white throat tufts (poi). They are usually very vocal, with a complicated mix of tuneful notes interspersed with coughs, grunts and wheezes.
(nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/tui)
Hasselblad 500C/M | Makro-Planar 120mm | Kodak Portra 400