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New Zealand's dominant native honeyeater - the TuiTui showing off its irridescent plumage and distinctive neck ruff featherThe silvery tones of the Bellbird are a highlight of the New Zealand dawn chorusGregarious, vocal and ever-active - the endemic WhiteheadThis Fantail's mouth may be the last thing a flying insect sees!The rare and hansome StitchbirdSilvereye, possibly a relatively recent coloniser species to NZ from AustraliaThe Grey Warbler is a member of the Gerygone family; Greek for 'born of song'An endemic Saddleback, showing why it is namedThe Kokako - one of the rarest of New Zealand's endemic birds, <br>now the focus of intensive conservation effortsPair of Kokakos showing their unusual blue face wattlesThe Kakariki, or Red-crowned ParakeetA very contented Kereru, the native pigeon of New ZealandFlocks 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 birdSouthern relative of the Whitehead, the Yellowhead is sadly becoming rarerToutouwai, the NZ Robin - this is the southern subspeciesThe Kaka! What an electrifying voice!Another Kakariki, this time the Yellow-crowned speciesTomtit, closely related to Australia's 'red' robinsThe Weka is an inquisitive inhabitant of wetlands and dense forest understoryThe Morepork, NZ's woodland owlThe 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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