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My First NI Saddleback (Tieke)

The North Island Saddleback (Tieke, philesturnus carunculatus) is another endemic bird that is not plentiful in New Zealand. This was seen on Tiritiri Matangi when I visited Auckland last month. Unfortunately this image does not show the bird's rust coloured "saddle" but this was the only bird I saw which didn't have branches, etc, obscuring part of the body. (These birds tend to rumage about on the ground a lot).

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Uploaded on June 12, 2011
Taken on May 21, 2011