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Alyssa

  1. The weka also known as the Maori hen or woodhen.
  2. The weka mainly eats invertebrates and fruit.
  3. The oldest known bird was 14 years old on south Island mainland and 19 years on kapiti Island.

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Carlos

Hello people, my name is Carlos and my bird is called Tieke. Here are some Facts about the Tieke:

1. The English name for the Tieke is also called the Saddleback.

2. Maui had a blackbird called the Tieke in the story Maui and the sun

3. The Tieke live in the mainland North Island.

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Pied oystercatcher

1.Some, which have shorter, blunter bills.Others, with longer, pointier bills, prise the two shells apart

2.They are large black and white wading birds, with long, orange-red bills and reddish-pink legs.

3.Pied oystercatchers are most commonly observed to feed in pairs, or small flocks,

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Donna

1 The kotuku or white Heron is considered a

very rare and sacred bird in New Zealand

2 Kotuku white heron a rare solitary bird towering above more pedestrian white faced herons and ducks

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Haiti

  1. The weka,also known as the Maori hen or woodhen.
  2. The weka is also a flightless bird.
  3. A weka beak is surprisingly powerful.

Hi my name is Haiti and I came from Tonga.this is my bird that I wanted and I wanted to show my amazing poster of the weka.I tried my best to draw my weka bird so hope you guys like it.

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Genesis

Piwakawaka is the Maori name for the bird

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They can live up to three years

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Their feathered tail helps them to change the direction like the rudder of the boat

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Eren

1. There are 7,000 saddlebacks in the populations.

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2. A saddleback can live for over 20 years.

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3. The animal of a saddleback is called a “Callaeidae”.

Tīeke

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By Hedaznee

Weka Bird Facts

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  1. Wekas are contender as New Zealand's most native birds.

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  • They are important because they hunt down rats and mice because rats and mice eats eggs of other birds.

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  • Weka are often mistaken for kiwis by tourists.

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Jireh

Kōtuku facts

  1. The white heron also known as the Kōtuku, is specially adapted for wading in shallow, muddy waterways.

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  • It has long legs that are bare of feathers to well above the ankle joint and long spreading toes.

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  • The Kōtuku colony is located in tall kahikatea dominated swamp forest.

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Moo Law La

Snow petrels are the only members of the pagodroma genus.

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The Snow petrels is one of the three species of birds that breed only in Antarctica.

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Snow petrels have the southernmost breeding distribution of all birds.

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Kyla

PIED OYSTERCATCHER!!

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  1. Pied oystercatchers Maori name is Torea.
  2. Pied Oystercatchers start breeding from the age of four or five and they live up to 27 years.
  3. Pied oystercatchers eat molluscs, estuarine worms and small fish.

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Kala

Saddleback/Tīeke

  1. Tīeke live in the Northern mainland
  2. Tīeke can not fly that well
  3. Tīeke live for about ten years

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Whetu

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  1. A Kereru can fly up to 50-kilometre Foveaux strait, between stewart island and Invercargill.

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  • Kereru can measure up to 51 cm from tail to beak and weigh about 650g.

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  • Kereru eat the fruit’s off native plants such as Miro, Tawa or Puriri.

Kereru:

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Tyzhae

1.Hello people and this is my bird called a Snow petrel and here are my facts about snow petrels. They are one of the three species of the breed only in Antarctica. Snow petrels are the only members of the genus pagedrom. And these birds live up to 20 years

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2.At the sea snow petrel eat mainly eat fish and some of the cephalopods squid other molluscs and euphausiids they also feed on seal placenta and the carcasses of dead seals whales and penguins and occasionally eat refuse on land

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3. The snow petrel are really fast and they go up to 40 km per hour

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Isaiah

1.The kiwi bird has little wings but can not fly

2. Kiwis can live to 25-50 years

3. Kiwis can run up to 12mph

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Xzandra-Leigh

PATEKE

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  1. THey’re nocturnal

2. They were once widespread throughout nz

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3. They’re the rarest duck in nz

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Tyrese

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Raisha

Piwakawaka (fantail) facts

Hi everyone, Here are some fun facts about the New Zealand Fantail, Piwakawaka.They can live for up to three years. Fantails are one of NZ's most common and well-known birds and they measure up to 16 cm.

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Thomas

Kiwis have little wings but can’t fly.

Kiwis can run 12 mph faster than an average human speed.

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Kiwi