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Behaviour
Tui are considered to be very intelligent, much like parrots. They also resemble parrots in their ability to clearly imitate human speech,[1] 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—unusually for a bird, Tui have two voiceboxes[2] and this is what enables 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.
These tui all seemed to be paying court to a large male (far left bird) who was puffed up and singing and chortling and clinking and clonking and trilling and rasping (as only Tui can do!) to keep their attention. Taken mid July with spring just around the corner and on the first fine sunny day in weeks. No wonder they were celebrating!
I was outside hanging the laundry when I heard the tui calling... so I got the camera, found the tui, and here he is, high in the gum tree.
Photographed at Orokonui Ecosanctuary, Dunedin, New Zealand.
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 - www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz
Native only in New Zealand. These birds have a unique calling.And the most interesting thing I find about these birds is that little bit of white beard like feathers under its neck :)
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Behaviour
Tui are considered to be very intelligent, much like parrots. They also resemble parrots in their ability to clearly imitate human speech,[1] 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—unusually for a bird, Tui have two voiceboxes[2] and this is what enables 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.
Out once again photographing Tui's. They make wonderful subjects and soon they will be gone again up country. So I'm making the most of them.
Tui, a native of New Zealand, (also known as the parson bird for his white "collar"). Although these birds were for some time endangered, they have, over the last 25 or 30 years assimilated well into the urban areas of New Zealand, even to the point of being seen quite regularly in our Capital city. They are Nectar eaters and feed on Native flax flowers, Kowhai tree flowers and also the flowers of Australian Eucalyptus trees.