Tiriti o Waitangi: The Treaty of Waitangi, sometimes referred to as Te Tiriti, is New Zealand’s founding document. It takes its name from the place in the Bay of Islands where it was first signed, on 6 February 1840.

Weka: A large, brown flightless bird that has a famously feisty and curious personality.

Tohorā: whale - often used as a general term, particularly for baleen whales.

Mohua: The yellowhead is a small, insect eating bird which lives only in the forests of New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island. Since 1991, a yellowhead has appeared on the reverse side of the New Zealand $100 note.

Pōpokotea: The whitehead is a small species of bird endemic to New Zealand. In many legends, whiteheads were viewed by Māori to have roles as messengers of the gods and as fortune tellers or seers.

Te Whanganui a Tara: The Māori name for Wellington Harbour or the great Harbour of Tara.

Tūī: A boisterous medium-sized bird native to New Zealand. It is blue, green, and bronze coloured with a distinctive white throat tuft.

Miromiro: The New Zealand tomtit looks similar to a robin. They are a small bird with a large head, a short bill and tail, and live in forest and scrub. The Māori name of the North Island tomtit is miromiro, while the South Island tomtit is known as ngirungiru.

Takahē: It is a flightless swamphen indigenous to New Zealand and the largest living member of the rail family.

Hihi: The stitchbird is a honeyeater-like bird endemic to the North Island and adjacent offshore islands of New Zealand. It's classed as the only member of its own family, the Notiomystidae.