Birds
New Zealand birds are amazing. Their names are crazy and their calls even crazier. I bought a bird CD and if there’s anyone out there that knows how, I would love to make one of the Kea calls my cell phone ring. Here are a couple I caught with my camera:
The Weka—this is a ground bird. It can’t fly and strikes me as being like our Guinea Hens. We saw baby ones and mama ones. They were all over the place. I think that the Maori and early settlers used to eat them like chickens.
The Robin—this little guy will come up to you on the trail because it thinks your shoe laces might be worms. It has a nice little chirp.
The Tui—this tufted guy sounds like r2d2 everyone thought so. The red flax bushes were in bloom when we were there and the Tui fed on those like a humming bird.
The Weka—this is a ground bird. It can’t fly and strikes me as being like our Guinea Hens. We saw baby ones and mama ones. They were all over the place. I think that the Maori and early settlers used to eat them like chickens.
The Robin—this little guy will come up to you on the trail because it thinks your shoe laces might be worms. It has a nice little chirp.
The Tui—this tufted guy sounds like r2d2 everyone thought so. The red flax bushes were in bloom when we were there and the Tui fed on those like a humming bird.
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