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New Zealand's dominant native honeyeater - the Tui Tui showing off its irridescent plumage and distinctive neck ruff feather The silvery tones of the Bellbird are a highlight of the New Zealand dawn chorus Gregarious, vocal and ever-active - the endemic Whitehead This Fantail's mouth may be the last thing a flying insect sees! The rare and hansome Stitchbird Silvereye, possibly a relatively recent coloniser species to NZ from Australia The Grey Warbler is a member of the Gerygone family; Greek for 'born of song' An endemic Saddleback, showing why it is named The Kokako - one of the rarest of New Zealand's endemic birds, <br>now the focus of intensive conservation efforts Pair of Kokakos showing their unusual blue face wattles The Kakariki, or Red-crowned Parakeet A very contented Kereru, the native pigeon of New Zealand Flocks of Brown Creepers are always on the move, feeding from the forest floor to canopy The tiny Rifleman, all 7 grams of him - NZ's smallest bird Southern relative of the Whitehead, the Yellowhead is sadly becoming rarer Toutouwai, the NZ Robin - this is the southern subspecies The Kaka! What an electrifying voice! Another Kakariki, this time the Yellow-crowned species Tomtit, closely related to Australia's 'red' robins The Weka is an inquisitive inhabitant of wetlands and dense forest understory The Morepork, NZ's woodland owl The nocturnal Little Spotted Kiwi, foraging on the forest floor
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Image gallery to accompany the album: 'Native Birdsong of New Zealand'

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