Black robin
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The black robin or Chatham Island robin is an endangered bird from the Chatham Islands off the east coast of New Zealand. It is closely related to the South Island robin. It was first described by Wal
Black Robin on Rangatira Island
Illustration of the black robin, the Chatham fernbird, and Lyall's wren, extinct birds from its region, by John Gerrard Keulemans
Mangere Island (left) and Little Mangere Island (right)
Petroica traversi nest from the collection of Auckland Museum
Tomtit
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The tomtit is a small passerine bird in the family Petroicidae, the Australasian robins. It is endemic to the islands of New Zealand, ranging across the main islands as well as several of the outlying
Black robin
…annual output of Old Blue (and later other females) by removing the first clutch every year and placing the eggs in the nest of the Chatham race of the tomtit, a technique known as cross-fostering. The tomtits raised the first brood, and the black robins, having lost their eggs, relaid and raised another…
A Toitoi in the forest
Petroica macrocephala macrocephala 1
Female tomtits have a browner plumage than the males
Illustration of South Island tomtit nests (1888)