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Gisborne's Online Zoo - Tui

Welcome to the TUI page...

The 'TUI'... or 'Parson Bird'... was so name for their White collar marking, just like the White collars of the Christian Ministers...

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TUI

 

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.