Korimako | Bellbird gorgeous shots.
It's been exciting to gradually see more of these around the Manawatū over the last few years. My way to locate them, if you think it's maybe a tūī but you can't see it, it could be the #Korimako
Often I only hear them - patient watching for the win though ✨️
Three panel image of a NZ Bellbird, me on a mountain bike smashing through a stream, and a spectrogram of the bellbird's liquid sounds.
2018 Trans-NZ. Five days blasting through South Island beech forests while bellbirds made R2-D2 sounds overhead. The korimako makes otherworldly calls - mechanical, liquid, layered harmonics. A soundtrack 4 trying not to crash. Hear them in the NZ bird pack on chipnotes.app #birding #mtb #korimako
Off to search for #Korimako #Bellbird and #Kōtare #Kingfisher ❤️
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Sound on is the key as these wee darlings are hard to spot!
More info in the #alttext
Anthornis melanura
Korimako / Makomako / Kōmako / New Zealand bellbird
Akaroa, New Zealand
June 2025
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New Zealand Bellbird
A bellbird / korimako (Anthornis melanura) enjoying feasting on a eucalyptus at the Christchurch Botanic Gardens, New Zealand last week.
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Here's a male korimako (NZ bellbird) I photographed singing in our garden in Ōtautahi-Christchurch. I just uploaded it to #iNaturalistNZ. (It's a rainy Saturday morning so I'm working through some of my backlog of photos.)
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/264387321
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