Did you know this popular song bird is one of our prettiest birds with its metallic blue green coat and its white neckpiece?
Like bellbirds and hihi, the tui is a nectar feeder. As well as drinking nectar, the tui snacks on insects and fruit.
Tui are common around New Zealand, even in cities. They often found around food plants like the kowhai, flax, ngaio and kaka beak. If you want to attract tui's to your garden you should grow these plants! Male tui can often be seen chasing bell birds and silvereyes from their territory.
I think we should look after the tui because it is New Zealands song bird.
By Caden Teau
