Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa
10 February 2012 - 12:52 pm NZ time
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The Birds Ngā Manu
See the complete list of Radio New Zealand birds.
Broadcast date: 10 February
Pīwakawaka (fantail)
Photograph by Dave Crouchley. Crown Copyright 1982, Department of Conservation.
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Broadcast date: 11 February
Canada goose
Photograph by Chuck Smerlo. Sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
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Broadcast date: 12 February
Pipipi (brown creeper)
Photograph sourced from Te Ara website.
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Broadcast date: 13 February
California quail
Photograph by Mila Zinkova. Sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
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Broadcast date: 15 February
Blackbird
Photograph by Tony Wills. Sourced from Wikimedia Commons.
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Click on the images for information about each bird from the Department of Conservation or Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand websites.
Radio New Zealand would like to thank the Department of Conservation for its contribution.
NB: The bird calls are available for download but are covered by strict copyright conditions. These conditions limit access to personal use only. It is a breach of these conditions for bird calls downloaded from this site to be distributed, broadcast publicly, or altered in any way.
English to Māori key
Australasian bittern - matuku
Bellbird - korimako
Black-backed gull - karoro
Black-fronted tern - tarapirohe
Blue-wattled crow - kōkako
Buller's mollymawk - toroa
Brown creeper - pipipi
Caspian tern - tarānui
Dawn chorus - te ata kōrihi
Diving petrel - kūaka
Fantail - pīwakawaka
Fairy prion - tītī wainui
Fluttering shearwater - pakaha
Forest parrot - kākā
Gannet - takapu
Grey warbler - riroriro
King shag - kawau
Long-tailed cuckoo - koekoea
Morepork - ruru
Mountain parrot - kea
Muttonbird - tītī
Night parrot - kākāpō
North Island robin - toutouwai
Paradise shellduck - pūtangitangi
Red-billed gull - tarāpunga
Royal albatross - toroa
Saddleback - tīeke
Spotted shag - kawau pateketeke
Shining cuckoo - pīpīwharauroa
Silvereye - tauhou
Skua - hākoakoa
Stitchbird - hihi
Parson bird - tui
Wandering albatross - toroa
Woodhen - weka
White-fronted tern - tara
Yellow-eyed penguin - hōiho
Yellowhead - mohua