SaddlebackTīeke

Tīeke have a piercing call that sounds a little bit like their starting a bush rave. They belong to the ancient wattlebird whānau – check out their bright red wattles – and are cousins of the extinct huia and the kōkako.

These red-banded, no nonsense forest-dwellers were once common throughout Aotearoa but they've been hit hard by introduced predators. Breeding programmes have seen tīeke numbers improve in recent decades but they're not out of the woods yet.