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English: The Fantail or Piwakawaka is a delightful New Zealand bird. They seem to have no fear around people and lovely to fly or hover around them in the hope that some bushes will be shaken so that they can catch the bugs that fly out of them!
New Zealand fantail New Zealand fantail Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Rhipiduridae Genus: Rhipidura Species: R. fuliginosa Binomial name Rhipidura fuliginosa (Sparrman, 1787) The New Zealand fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa) is a small insectivorous bird, the only ...
This is the list of the birds of New Zealand. The common name of the bird in New Zealand English is given first, and its Māori-language name, if different, is also noted. The North Island and South Island are the two largest islands of New Zealand. Stewart Island is the largest of the smaller islands.
This list is based on the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds list, May 2002 update, with the doubtfuls omitted. It includes the birds of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, and the surrounding ocean and subantarctic islands. Australian call-ups are based on the List of Australian birds.
Fantails are small insectivorous songbirds of the genus Rhipidura in the family Rhipiduridae, native to Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent.Most of the species are about 15 to 18 cm (5.9 to 7.1 in) long, specialist aerial feeders, and named as "fantails", but the Australian willie wagtail is a little larger, and, though still an expert hunter of insects on the wing ...
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Approximately 71% of the bird species breeding in New Zealand before humans arrived are widely accepted as being endemic. [ 1 ] There is also a smaller group of species are not fully endemic, but are breeding endemic, in that they breed only in New Zealand, but migrate or range elsewhere.
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