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Welcome to the TUI page... |
CLICK photo to hear 3 minute 4 second recording of TUI and a chorus of many other birds singing in mixed bush and flowering kowhai.
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Like a sweet toned bell comes the Tui's voice ... at times ranging up and down the scale in bewildering fashion. This beautiful bird with its flashing bronze, green and blue-black plumage, is known best for its clear musical notes!
It mixes peculiar sounds, coughs and clucks and sneezes, with its loveliest notes. It is also a born mimic.