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"E Tui, will you come down from the forest roof?"
Tui looked up at the trees and saw the sun filtering through the leaves. Tui looked down at the forest floor and saw the cold, dark earth and shuddered.
"Kao, Tanehokahoka, for it is too dark and I am afraid of the dark."
A Tui Tai guest meeting kids in Buca Village on Vanua Levu. "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
It was sad to see Tuis in a cage, we saw (and heard) so many of them around the park flying around freely. This one was flying around madly in its fairly small cage.
At The Esplanade, Palmerston North.
The Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae novaeseelandiae) is the largest of the two honeyeaters on Tiritiri Matangi. They are found throughout most of New Zealand.
Despite tuis being near constant features in our garden for the past 17 years I have never seen any nests, chicks or juveniles until this year. We've had a nest in the plum tree (although I think the birds abandoned it before producing chicks) and have had juveniles in the trees for the first time. This chap was one of a pair of juveniles feeding in the bottle brush. Neither was as practiced at moving through the tree harvesting nectar as the adults. Whereas the adults hop through the branches from flower to flower, only taking wing when they run out of flowers on a limb, the two juveniles would flutter in the air trying to land back on the same branch in a different location. They probably expended more energy doing this than they took in from the nectar. Given time I'm sure they'll learn.
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
An endemic passerine bird of New Zealand. It is one of the largest members of the diverse honeyeater family. 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.
This bird was feeding on harakeke (NZ flax) flowers at Otari-Wilton's Bush, Wellington
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This TUI Care Foundation and The Reef-World Foundation initiative aims to help protect coral reefs in the Dominican Republic.
The initiative is part of the international TUI Junior Academy programme and will deliver tailored marine environmental education courses to Youth Ambassadors, inspiring them to champion coral reef conservation projects and lead activities within their local communities. As part of a multi-faceted approach to protecting coral reefs, it will also introduce environmentally friendly guidelines to promote sustainable diving and snorkelling. This will help to reduce any local deterioration of the coral reef and build its resilience to wide-scale global challenges. In partnership with Reef Check Dominican Republic and the Ministry of Environment of the Dominican Republic, the project aims to significantly reduce any direct detrimental impact to coral reefs by building awareness of, and facilitating, environmentally-friendly best practices for diving and snorkelling activities.
Over 2,000 members of the community will also learn about reef protection through the environmental activities of Youth Ambassadors. Photo: 2020