Great Backyard Bird Off - Round 3 - New Zealand (poll 2)
Choose your favorite
Kereru
Tomtit
Bird Support
Kererū (Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae)
They’re so joyous and whimsical and they get drunk off of berries fermenting in their stomach and fall out of the tree. Ideal creature
They are super cute and also keep trying to stand on branches that are too small for them and then fall off or hang upside-down
My favourite of all the places I’ve lived had a tree right outside my second floor window and the time at which I got home every day was the time at which a kereru best liked hanging out in that tree. I was so happy to see it =)
Massive. Colourful. Pigeon. That eats huge berries whole.
Tomtit (Petroica macrocephala)
Has two subspecies with Māori names for both, south island (ngirungiru) & north island (miromiro)
Image sources: kereru (Marcin Dyduch), tomtit (Peter Taylor)
