Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

IOC Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Cladus: Osteichthyes • Superclassis: Tetrapoda • Cladus: Amniota • Cladus: Reptilia • Cladus: Archosauria • Classis: Aves • Superordo: Neognathae • Ordo: Passeriformes • Subordo: Passeri • Infraordo: Corvida • Superfamilia: Meliphagoidea • Familia: Meliphagidae • Genus: Prosthemadera • Species: Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae (Gmelin, 1788)

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'tūī']

• English: Tui, parson bird, Tui
• Afrikaans: Toei
• العربية: تيوي
• مصرى: تيوى
• Kotava: Proklano
• català: menjamel tui
• čeština: tui zpěvný
• Cymraeg: aderyn y goler gron
• dansk: Præstefugl
• Deutsch: Tui, Tuihonigfresser
• Esperanto: Tui
• español: Mielero Tui, Mielero tui
• eesti: tui (tui-meelind)
• euskara: Tui
• فارسی: کشیش‌مرغ
• suomi: tui
• français: Méliphage tui, Thui cravate-frisée
• עברית: דבשן הכומר
• hrvatski: kudravi medojed
• magyar: tui
• italiano: Tui
• 日本語: エリマキミツスイ
• lietuvių: tujis, Naujosios Zelandijos tujus
• Māori: Tui, koko, Tūī
• македонски: Туи
• norsk bokmål: Tuihonningeter
• Nederlands: Toei
• norsk nynorsk: Tuihonningetar
• norsk: Tuihonningeter
• Diné bizaad: Tsídii dinoodí dootłʼizhgo disxǫsígíí
• polski: kędziornik
• پنجابی: توئی
• português: papa-mel-tui, papa-mel-azulado
• русский: Новозеландский туи
• slovenčina: medárik kazateľ
• svenska: tui
• українська: пое
• 中文: 图伊鸟

Wikispecies has an entry on:

Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

• Note: This is currently the only extant (living) species in the genus Prosthemadera.

• ITIS link: Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae (Gmelin, 1788)

• IUCN: Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae (Gmelin, 1788) (old web site) (Least Concern)

Photographs

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  Tui on a kowhai branch.
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  Tui on a flax bush.
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  Tui on a flax bush.
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  Crying to the sky.
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  Feathers fluffed up to make it look bigger.
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  Iridescent back feathers

• Feeding
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  Hanging upside down to feed on spring blossom.
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  Hanging upside down feeding on red-hot poker flowers.
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  Feeding on nectar from flax flowers.
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  Feeding on nectar from flax flowers.
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  Feeding on nectar from kowhai flowers.
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  Parent feeding juvenile

• Flight
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Closeups and detail

• 
  Head closeup.
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  Head and upper body.
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  Brush like tongue.
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  Neck feathers.
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  Foot closed.
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  Foot open.

Illustrations

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  A pair of tui perched on native clematis in flower
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  Adult and young on kowhai tree
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  Head and neck
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  Nests

Video

• Singing in a tree at sunrise
• Short video with vocalizations