View allAll Photos Tagged TUI
Sad sight
All lined up at Brussels Airport are the unfortunate Boeing 737 MAX-8 of TUI Airlines Belgium.
Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae), one of New Zealand's native honeyeaters, are important pollinators of native forest flowers. The tui's beak is perfectly shaped to fit into the harakeke, or NZ flax, flower from which it feeds on nectar.
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.
Arriva Kent & Surrey (MD)
TUI 7939 (6146)
Volvo B7TL Wrightbus Eclipse Gemini
New to Arriva Midlands as 4009 and registered as FJ56 OBG.
The tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) is 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 Māori name tūī and is the species' formal common name. The plural is tui in modern English, or ngā tūī in Māori usage;[2] some speakers still use the '-s' suffix to produce the Anglicised form tuis to indicate plurality, but this practice is becoming less common.[3] The early European colonists called it the parson bird,[4] but, as with many New Zealand birds, the Maori name tūī is now the common name and the English term is archaic
Yesterday I went in search of bush birds and terns. I had no luck but when I returned to the car park I found this beauty.
(Please feel free to share this image on Facebook, but no other usage without written permission. Thanks.)
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, you 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.
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.
Hnai ih chụp hìn h vs chú vs anh bec..chụp đc chút mưa tầm tã tội nghịp chú nhường đôi dép cho tui lun..hix 2 chú cháu ngồi kế nhau ấm cúng + a Bec nữa..mưa lúc sau tui vs chú vs anh Bec ướt như chuột lột lun roù ih ăn phở ây da hết bài ngon hết bik chú har...
Con thương chú =)) chú của con =))
The boisterous Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) is both the clown and gymnast in the tree tops. Add their song to their repertoire and they are pretty much the all round entertainer, unless you're another bird species of course! In which case, expect to be chased off. In case you're wondering, he'd spotted an apple on the ground.