Designed In The Shape Of A Bird-Song Greeting Card - The NZ Native Kokako Bird's Birdsong Comes To Life In Your Hands Everytime You Open This Card... A Gift And Souvenir In One To Remind You Of The Beauty Of The New Zealand Bush And One Of It's Inhabitants: The Kokako bird!
his 'Kokako bird singing greeting card'has on the front a stunning photo of a New Zealand Kokako bird taken by a professional wildlife photographer with a passion to getting the best photo possible of this unique bird!
The Kokako bird singing greeting card is designed to to be placed in a prominent position... to be picked up and enjoyed... as the remarkable voice of the Kokako's bird song pour out of the card - the edited hi-lights of each Kokako bird's song is digitally captured and available for you to listen to - every time you open the card...
As the Kokako bird singing card is opened an 8 second string of the professionally edited highlights of the Kokako bird’s actual song is played. These were recorded by conservation workers in the field. They are the same as are played on National radio daily.
The Kokako bird singing greeting card is designed to last. The design is enhanced with embossments, UV spotting and matt lamination. The idea is to create a gift of sight and sound around the actual beauty of the bird, its personality and its habitat. A genuine gift of nature that has the potential to "take you there" or "bring you back the memory of being there" in the New Zealand native bush.
A genuine souvenir of nature, a keepsake, the NZ native Kokako bird greeting card is a gift in itself.
The size of the card is 5 3/4 inches (148mm) by 8 3/4 inches (220mm) and comes sealed complete with a designed matching envelope.
Made in New Zealand, by New Zealanders about real New Zealand.
Other New Zealand Native Bird songs in this series:
Read below more information below on the New Zealand Bellbird, AND listen to a sample of the Kokako bird's birdsong...
Kôkako Bird
The Kôkako (Callaeas cinerea) is a forest bird which is endemic to New Zealand. It is slate-grey with a black mask and wattles. It is one of three species of New Zealand Wattlebird, the other two being the endangered Tieke (saddleback) and the extinct Huia.
Previously widespread, Kôkako populations throughout New Zealand have been decimated by the predations of mammalian invasive species such as possums, stoats, cats and rats and their range has contracted significantly. There were formerly two sub-species of Kôkako, North Island and South Island, although the South Island subspecies may now be extinct.
Click here to listen to very short sample of the New Zealand Kokako bird singing (much much longer on the card)
Facts about kôkako
North Island kôkako There are two sub-species of kôkako, the North Island kôkako (Callaeas cinerea wilsoni) and the South Island kôkako (C. c. cinerea).
The North Island kôkako is found mainly in mature podocarp-hardwood forests. There are fewer than 400 pairs that occur in several isolated populations in the central and northern North Island. In the last 20 years, there has been a marked decline in numbers of North Island kôkako, although management is reversing that trend in many areas now.
South Island kôkako are currently assumed to be extinct, although it is possible they may survive in low numbers in remote parts of the South Island and Stewart Island.
Kôkako are renowned for the clarity and volume of their song which carries far across the forest. In the early morning, a pair may sing a duet for up to half an hour with other kôkako joining in to form a "bush choir".
Male and female are similar in colour and size (weighing about 230 grams).
They protect large territories (eight hectares) by singing and chasing away invaders.
They eat leaves, fern-fronds, flowers, fruit and invertebrates.
In Maori myth, it was the kôkako that gave Maui water as he fought the sun. The kôkako filled its wattles with water and brought it to Maui. His thirst quenched, Maui rewarded the kôkako by making its legs long and slender, enabling the bird to bound through the forest with ease in search of food.
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