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Jon Sullivan

Have you ever seen a tūī looking all stylish and dressed up in *brown*!?

Apparently the condition is called "eumelanistic", which makes the usually iridescent black plumage into a dapper brown instead.

inaturalist.nz/observations/28

iNaturalist NZTūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae)Tūī in June 2025 by Laura Molles. Apparently eumelanistic. Observation submitted on behalf of local resident who shared the photos.
#birds#nz#tūī
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Jon Sullivan

News from the tūī catch team today, working in an Akaroa garden on Smith Street, is that 15 more unbanded tūī were caught and banded, and three previously banded birds were re-caught and released. Those included Trevor, the oldest known tūī on Banks Peninsula. He was banded as an adult back in April 2013 when he was already at least two years old. He’ll be 14 or 15 years old now and is likely to be one of the first generation of wild birds that descended from the Maud Island tūī that were released at Hinewai in 2009 and 2010.

#birds#nz#conservation
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Jon Sullivan

I was fortunate to spend today at Ōnuku, near Akaroa, on Banks Peninsula, NZ, helping the tūī team to catch and band tūī.

This is part of the ongoing effort to understand and manage the tūī on Banks Peninsula. The species was lost from the Peninsula due to forest habitat loss and pest mammals. Community restoration work has been reversing both of these and a new tūī population was kick-started by the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust, with the translocation of birds from the Maud Island sanctuary in 2009 and 2010.

Thanks to the annual banding efforts, and the local community reporting the banded birds when they see them, we know that the population is now slowly growing and expanding.

All banding is done by registered Level 3 bird banders. My job today was to help spot the mist nets when the bird banders were busy with caught birds.

A photo of a tūī bird at a sugar water feeder. The sugar water feeder is made from an upturned wine bottle. This bird has colour bands that it was given two years ago. Tūī are a large dark iridescent bird with a white bobble of feathers under the beak (leading to the English settler name of Parson bird).
A close photo of the head of a NZ tūī bird. Tūī are a large dark iridescent bird with a white bobble of feathers under the beak. This one was in mid-call in the photo so has its beak open.
A photo of Chris, a Level 3 bird bander, with one of the 15 new tūī caught today in a mist-net and banded before being released. Chris is holding the tūī carefully in one hand and he's smiling.
A photo of Laura and Chris, the two Level 3 bird banders on the team today, each carefully removing a tūī bird from the mist-net set up in a farm garden near a sugar water feeder. The caught birds were weighed and sexed and banded before being released. The bands allow the local community to track where the tūī go and how long they live. Bird banding is careful, skilled work and it takes years of practice to reach Level 3, the highest NZ bird banding level.
#nz#tui#birds
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