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North Island Robin, Petroica longipes

The North Island Robin (Petroica longipes) is a species of Australasian Robin endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. It and the South Island Robin of South and Stewart Islands were once considered conspecific (and called the New Zealand Robin ), but mitochondrial DNA sequences have shown that the two lineages split prior to the Pleistocene and supported the split into two species.

The North Island Robin is distributed mostly in the centre of North Island, with small relict populations in the north and south in Moturua Island in the Bay of Islands, Little Barrier Island and Kapiti Island.

Populations have been reestablished in Karori Wildlife Sanctuary and Moehau in the Coromandel Peninsula. A remnant population is also reestablishing itself in the Ohope Scenic Reserve in the Bay of Plenty.

40 birds have also been translocated from Mokoia Island, Lake Rotorua, to the Ohope Scenic Reserve to assist in the re-establishment of the species. Their natural habitat is mostly natural forest, particularly Podocarpus and Nothofagus forests, from sea level up to the tree line.

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
Range map from www.oiseaux.net - Ornithological Portal Oiseaux.net
www.oiseaux.net is one of those MUST visit pages if you're in to bird watching. You can find just about everything there


North Island Robin bird distrubution map from New Zealand Birds Online HERE

And the North Island Robin Plate from New Zealand Birds Online HERE


Description
The plumage is dark grey-black overall with a pale area on the belly and breast (which is smaller than that of the South Island Robin ) and pale streaking on the upperparts. They are sexually dimorphic, with males having darker plumage than the females and being slightly larger.

Listen to the North Island Robin


Male territorial song, Kapiti Island, October 1956, Morning, Carl & Lise Wiesmann (deceased),
McPherson Natural History Unit Sound Archive, www.archivebirdsnz.com
Sound from http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz


Adult giving alarm calls at a morepork, Whanganui, August 2012, 12:27, Peter Frost
Sound from http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz
New Zealand Birds Online


Behaviour
Feeding
The North Island Robin , like the South Island Robin , is a terrestrial feeder foraging on or near the ground (unlike the related and more arboreal tomtit). Prey items are located by perch-hunting, where an individual waits at an elevated perch until prey is spotted, or by active searching; prey is taken from the leaf-litter, low vegetation (branches and foliage) and tree trunks. Numerous invertebrate prey is taken, including cicadas, earthworms, wetas, snails, and spiders. Fruit is also taken.

North Island robins cache food supplies for later when prey is plentiful, although males cache more food than females do. Both sexes will steal food from their mate's cache, and are less likely to cache food if their mate is present.

Conservation status
North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
Least concern (IUCN 3.1)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2016.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2016.



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sighted: 24 October 2017 (Date of first photo that I could use)
Location: Tawharanui Regional Park


North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Tawharanui Regional Park - 24 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Tiritiri Matangi Island - 25 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Tiritiri Matangi Island - 25 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Tiritiri Matangi Island - 25 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Cascade Kauri - 27 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Cascade Kauri - 27 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Cascade Kauri - 27 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Cascade Kauri - 27 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Cascade Kauri - 27 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Cascade Kauri - 27 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Cascade Kauri - 27 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Cascade Kauri - 27 October 2017

North Island Robin, Petroica longipes
North Island Robin - Petroica longipes - Cascade Kauri - 27 October 2017




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Bird information, bird song and maps. Yes, there are excellent trekking maps online so you can plan, or go back after the trek to see where you have been, excellent. I have not been disappointed.

• New Zealand Birds Online nzbirdsonline.org.nz

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Many other places I have been to have excellent maps on site, but trying to find them online New Zealand Birds Onlinerendering nothing but disappointments. The New Zealand's Department of Conservation is the ONE STOP ONLY for everything regarding outdoor activities on New Zealand.

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