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Tawharanui reserve, New Zealand

Petroica longipes

Identification

18 cm (7 ins) 35 gm (1.13 ozs)

Sooty grey head, neck and upperparts streaked whitish
Faint pale grey wingbar
Sooty grey tail with brownish tinge
Slate-black chin and breast, streaked whitish
White lower belly and undertail-coverts

Females are paler than males.

Distribution

An uncommon endemic found on North Island, New Zealand

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species.
Formerly considered conspecific with South Island Robin under the name New Zealand Robin (and still considered so by Clements^[1]).

Habitat

Native and exotic forest

Behaviour

Long legs and an upright stance, inquisitive - almost appears tame

Perches on low branches and flies down to the forest floor - hops

Diet

Diet includes insects.

Breeding

Breeding : July-Jan

Vocalisation

Male has a loud clear song with regional differences - a string of phrases, including pwee-pwee-pwee, usually descending.
Call is a soft chirp.

In Culture

Maori name: Toutouwai

References

Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.4). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
Dickinson, EC, ed. 2014. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 4th ed. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0956861122
Miller, Hilary C. & Lambert, David M. (2006): A molecular phylogeny of New Zealand’s Petroica (Aves: Petroicidae) species based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40(3): 844-855. [1](HTML abstract)

List of references

Recommended Citation

BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) North Island Robin. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 9 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/North_Island_Robin

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