I took a video of a Toutouwai (#Petroica longipes) North Island Robin drumming the ground with its tail feathers and gobbling anything that poked their head up.
Not sure if this is known behaviour or whether Iβm the first human to experience it. Happy to share the video but the focus is terrible because there were several branches getting in the way.
Here's your friendly neighbourhood reminder that the New Zealand tomtit, miromiro, has *bright orange feet*!
My feet feel so inadequate.
I saw this female up the Nina Valley in the North Canterbury mountains last weekend.
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The flame robin (Petroica phoenicea) is a small passerine bird native to Australia. It is a moderately common resident of the coolest parts of south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It was first described by the French naturalists Jean RenΓ© Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard in 1830 and, like many brightly coloured Australasian robins, it...
#Australia #Petroica #BassStrait #Tasmania #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_robin
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