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Tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae)
Subject: Tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae)
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Tui adult and young - tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae).jpg
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Tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae)


Tui (Prosthemadera novaezealandiae) (adult and young). A pair of tui seen in profile perched on branches with native Kowhai vegetation. The nearer adult bird shows its full range of plumage colour and a wattle.
Date 1888
Author From Buller, W. L. A History of the Birds of New Zealand. 2nd ed. (London, 1888)
Artist John Gerrard Keulemans
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tui_adult_and_young.jpg

The tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) is a boisterous medium-sized bird native to New Zealand. It is blue, green, and bronze colored with a distinctive white throat tuft. It is an endemic passerine bird of New Zealand, and the only species in the genus Prosthemadera. It is one of the largest species in the diverse Australasian honeyeater family Meliphagidae, and one of two living species of that family found in New Zealand, the other being the New Zealand bellbird (Anthornis melanura). The tūī has a wide distribution in the archipelago, ranging from the subtropical Kermadec Islands to the sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands, as well as the main islands.

Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Prosthemadera
Species: Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae (Gmelin, 1788)

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