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Product of Pikita
Designed and crafted in New Zealand

Made from FSC certified poplar - which guarantees products come from enviromentally and socially responsibly managed sources

280mm x 210mm x 9mm

Tuis are unique to New Zealand and belong to the honeyeater family meaning they feed mainly on nectar from native trees.
They can be found in the North and South Island, Stewart Island and off-shore New Zealand Isands. The Chatham Island Tui is a threatened subspecies of tui.
Standing at over 30cm tall this beautiful bird has iridescent blue/green head and wings, and distinctive white neck tufts which originally led it to be called the parson bird by the early settlers.

The tui is loud and easily recognisable from its call made up of whistles, clicks, coughs and grunts. It’s often the first to start singing in the morning and the last to sing at night, it's even known to sing to the moon on a clear moonlit night. They have been found to have different regional accents and are able to imitate the call of every bird in the forest. In the past, Maori kept them in cages and trained them to repeat welcome speeches up to 70 words long. They even trimmed their brush-like tongue to help them speak more clearly.

Population: Between 3,500 - 15,000