North Island Kōkako

Raw video footage of a North Island Kōkako singing on Kāpiti Island, New Zealand.
Filmed by ‪@richardsidey‬ / ‪@galaxiid‬
Here's a beautiful sound recording of a Kokako Aliscia Young and I captured on another encounter, this time on Tiritiri Matangi: • Song of the Kōkako
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About the North Island Kōkako:
With their extraordinary haunting song, and obscure evolutionary relationships to other birds, kokako evoke the forests of ancient New Zealand/Aotearoa perhaps more than any other species. More likely to be heard than seen, North Island kokako have persisted in small populations particularly in the central North Island from the King Country through to Te Urewera. They typically inhabit tall native forest dominated by tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), singing from tree-tops but often feeding in understorey layers.
All mainland North Island populations persist only with sustained control of key pest mammals (ship rats and brushtail possums). All unmanaged populations are extinct.'
Text extract from New Zealand Birds Online.
Source: www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/spec...