TauhouSilvereye

Conservation status
Doing OK

Translating to “stranger”, tauhou colonised the country almost overnight. Its believed that, in 1832, a storm took a migrating flock to New Zealand. Because they migrated naturally to Aotearoa, they are classified as a native species and so are protected.

Silvereye

Credit: Laurie Boyle

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