Tūī - New Zealand Bird of the Week

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Tūī are raucous and brightly songbirds that have among the most complicated and astounding songs of any bird in the country. I hope you enjoy.
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@AntoekneeDE Год назад

The speech mimicry of this species is incredible and was totally new to me. Thank you

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Sure is! Thanks for watching! :)

@ecurewitz Год назад

I was very impressed

@minted1841 Год назад

Such majestic birds. Clip of the talking Tui was surprising & funny :)

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Sure are! Many thanks for watching! Incredible how much range they have.

@wendychavez5348 Год назад

In the first or second sound clip I heard it meowing-- that plucked my heartstrings!

@The_PokeSaurus Год назад

Their voice mimicry is rather scary. But the Pizza Hut one makes it funny too.

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

It's certainly uncanny! Almost like they're possessed or something. I'd certainly love to hear that in person!

@GeorgeTheDinoGuy Год назад

Rest in peace Woof Woof, Tūī are just amazing birds and it’d be cool to see more research into their amazing intelligence and social structure. I’m so glad they’re still prevailing in some places in New Zealand, this has been one of my favourite videos of yours :)

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Indeed. Such a remarkable individual. Lived to 16 as well, so one of the longest-lived birds of their species known! And definitely, still, so much we can learn about them and their culture. And much appreciated!

@Susie_Floozie Год назад

Now, that's an epic-looking bird! The colors are gorgeous, and those delicate feather whiskers are charming features. And they MIMIC SPEECH, too!?! These birds are real winners!

@wendychavez5348 Год назад

Gorgeous! As are all creatures in NZ, including humans.

@ceruleanclouds5871 Год назад

Thanks for the video .

@peterherbert7824 Год назад

I heard a story of a radio / TV personality who had his office up stairs and there land line phone down stairs and everytime he sat down his phone would ring so he would go down stairs and it would stop . It took him a long time to realize it was a tui imitating the phone .😂😂

@stephenking4170 Год назад

The most incredible thing about the quality of the tui speech is that anybody who knows Robert Webb would recognise this voice as Robert. It would be interesting to hear the same bird learn to mimic a different person's voice.

@peckser5alltheway Год назад

They look like they have evolved from European starlings, and have a similar voice when mimicking human speech. Fascinating video

@ProfessionalBadPerson Год назад

Rip Woof Woof

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

RIP indeed...

@qwertyuiopgarth Год назад

I need to learn some more about this species! I hadn't known that a species of songbird was capable of all that!

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

I'll be sure to make more videos covering these animals and more at a later point. :)

@qwertyuiopgarth Год назад

Excellent! The wildlife of New Zealand is fascinating.

@paulg3336 Год назад

I have a local Tūī that is extremely aggressive. I once saw him chase a swallow , staying 75mm of the swallow's tail and flying 100mm above the surface of a roof. It was like watching an airliner matching a fighter jet in maneuoverability. I have also seen the same bird fly a 1m diameter loop around a tree branch - and they do it all at maximum . Fantastic flyers

@wendychavez5348 Год назад

Wow!

@lindaroberts2297 11 месяцев назад

Thank you:))) - l loved this, so informative & you have a great voice -

@HenrythePaleoGuy 11 месяцев назад

I really appreciate it!

@kuitaranheatmorus9932 Год назад

This bird is so cool

@purplehaze2358 8 месяцев назад

Wow, these birds are gorgeous.

@kaisahfx1246 Год назад

woof woof, my hero

@FacesintheStone Год назад

Love the BotW, iridescent green is so kool.

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Much appreciated! I love making them. Sure are beautiful colours!

@patrick247two Год назад

Thank you. Very informative. I did not know of the macrons in this birds name. Helps with pronunciation too. I have a flax growing in my yard, the nectar of which the Tūī enjoy greatly. Earlier this year a Tūī came, with a chick, to visit the flax. There was no nectar available, so I think the elder was showing the youth the feeding places. I have propagated some seeds of the flax, which I will plant out. The more the better.

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Thank you! And they sure can! Must have been cool to see! :) And good on you for helping out with the plantings! Be sure to keep them randomly spaced. :)

@finlayson Год назад

The macrons are really only if you're writing in the Maori language (and in this case, they make no real difference to the pronunciation). In English, the bird's name is usually just written "tui".

@paulg3336 Год назад

They also like the flowers of various aloes and Red Hot Pokers (Kniphofia)

@patrick247two Год назад

@@finlayson The addition of a macron indicates a long vowel which changes the way the word is pronounced. English can spell any word any way they want, but we are speaking about Te Reo here.

@finlayson Год назад

@@patrick247two I wasn't talking about Te Reo; I was talking about English, where the common spelling is "tui"

@graphite2786 Год назад

Been waiting for this one Henry 😁 Tūī were the first New Zealand bird i ever saw, they reminded me so much of the Australian wattle birds and friar birds ( also big honeyeaters). Never knew about their mimicry tho, Woofwoof certainly put a smile on my face! It's so pleasing to see a NZ species surviving colonization, it be wonderful to see and hear tīeke and kōkako in suburbia too one day!

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Been a long time coming! And indeed, Woof Wood and his vocals really are awesome. I hope so on that front regarding birds like that being more commonly seen. Zealandia is the closest thing to far, and it’s having great results. Predator control really will be key!

@henkvandergaast3948 Год назад

@@HenrythePaleoGuy I have a visiting wattle bird and all he does is scream for food and rifle through my hair

@asoncalledvoonch2210 2 месяца назад

These birds are basically the O'o of New Zealand

@tonkinthehanoian1843 Месяц назад

How so?

@Alberad08 Год назад

As always, many thanks for creating & sharing these! BTW prior to this, I didn't even know about the existence of this remarkable animal.

@riverAmazonNZ Год назад

You do hear them much more on Banks Peninsula now. It’s good.

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Thankfully! Noticing them a lot more in Canterbury now too. Saw my first one here in 2020, and have heard/seen a good few more now since then. Appear to be establishing more now, which is excellent.

@pal5488 Год назад

Woof woof

@Losaru Год назад

First thing I see with that plummage is Skeksis

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Them without feathers would certainly resemble them!

@SnarkNSass Год назад

Gorgeous 🥰

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Sure are!

@kaltneta6704 Год назад

9:40 oh, that's sad. But also cute and cool, but still sad.

@tehsma Год назад

Love it!

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Thank you! They're very cool birds indeed. :)

@LatentHeat69 Год назад

Thank you

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

You're welcome!

@ray1956 Год назад

Great video topic It is pointless to resist. TALK NERDY to me👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿😃👨🏿‍⚕️👨🏿‍⚕️👀👀

@ecurewitz Год назад

They look like the grackles native to America

@afatpossum2586 Год назад

Imagine teaching a bunch of these how to talk and then releasing them into the wild.

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

It's certainly possible! We could have a whole population of eminem rap gods out there, and it wouldn't be unreasonable at all.

@finlayson Год назад

Just FYI - almost nobody uses the Maori alphabet when writing "tui" in English

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

It's becoming more common to do so, so I'm keeping with that. The International Ornithologists' Union does have a policy of not using accents, though.

@DailyFreaks 3 месяца назад

Was blessed to visit NZ for the first time in a long time last fall. The people and the scenery are both lovely but the tui and the magpies are the biggest cunts I’ve met in a long time.

@kaltneta6704 Год назад

I wonder if Woof Woof would have sounded different if another person took care of him.

@mikejones-go8vz 5 месяцев назад

Yes, he would’ve

@Skyypixelgamer Год назад

And I thought only crows,parrots, and starlings could talk

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Lyrebirds too! It's remarkable how well they can talk!

@nicksweeney5176 Год назад

Firrrrst...!!!

@HenrythePaleoGuy Год назад

Enjoy the video!

@nicksweeney5176 Год назад

@@HenrythePaleoGuy Oh, but didn't I?!👍🏻👍🏻 My sincerest heartfelt thanks to you, Hank. This one pulled upon and well played every vein in the Heart of me.