Bellbird - New Zealand Bird of the Week

[@riverAmazonNZ]

I love how they always seem to be glaring indignantly, it’s funny because they’re fairly small. They are super loud though! Even their flight is loud whirring. They always seem so energetic. Must be all the sugar!

[@minted1841]

Bellbirds enjoy time in our Kowhai tree. Very vocal :)

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

They can be indeed!

[@pandemik0]

Every bellbird has it's own signature call, as you spend time in one location, you'll recognise individuals.

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

I wish I had song birds like that in the uk, their variation and generally nice song is great to hear!

[@Alberad08]

Thank you so much for creating & sharing another fascinating New Zealand bird video!

[@briangarrow448]

What beautiful calls! I live in the Pacific Northwest and often listen to our native birds. For many years I worked at a wastewater treatment plant on the Pacific coast that was located next to a wildlife refuge and enjoyed watching the wide variety of migratory birds that visited the refuge seasonally. The birds were almost as interesting as the serious bird watchers who would also come to the refuge seasonally. 😮

[@briangarrow448]

@The Philosoraptor Yes, I was. And the birds are fascinating also.

[@kuitaranheatmorus9932]

I like Bellbird and I enjoyed this video

[@frostdragon]

More songs describing and hearing. Fascinating.

[@rickharold7884]

V nice. And super clear detailed pics.

[@purplehaze2358]

2:45 This one straight-up has a rhythm not out of line with human musical preferences, that's kinda crazy to me.

[@asoncalledvoonch2210]

Imagine walking onto the north island or south island 1,000 years ago before any human ever went there. I cannot imagine how amazingly beautiful it would've been.

[@ProfessionalBadPerson]

I like this more in depth look at each of their calls. This would be cool on other videos! Though I do recognise that Bellbirds are probably the easier species to do this on.

[@Opeth12341]

Hello, great video! I am planning to visit NZ in March 2025. Can you please let me know whether the New Zealand Bellbird's song can be heard in March?

[@graphite2786]

Would you ever think of doing a sort of recap on all the endemic passerines of NZ ? I think you have covered them all now except for the tui!

[@uncannyvalley2350]

The tui is effectively a bird of paradise, their feathers in the full sun are astonishing

[@pal5488]

Ur voice is just so cool

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

The NZ/English mix makes it more unique, I guess. :)

[@nicksweeney5176]

Hybrid vigor. We accept and embrace him, despite his pommishness.😉 He's a treasure.

[@flanno]

What kind of efforts are made to try and protect/increase some of the species of native birds in NZ?

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

There are a ton of local and district predator trapping programmes going on across the country, as well as innovations occurring in regards to toxins and genetic editing. It's exciting to see all of the developments! :)

[@flanno]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy firstly thank you for your response, I am a big fan of your channel. I watched a documentary on gene editing that featured NZ and the desire to trial CRISPR on rats. Has NZ trialled CRISPR in the wild yet? Has the government given the green light? Would be a very interesting episode.

[@skybluskyblueify]

I guess there's other birds that sound like bells to people. I wonder if there are other bell-sounding birds besides the south and central American bellbirds and the New Zealand bellbirds?

[@Awakeandalive1]

Fascinating! I wouldn't have said "bellbird" but rather "fifebird" but who am i to argue with the fine folks of New Zealand?

[@erlwilliam1]

I think that there was one in our garden yesterday a green coloured bird

[@brynadoodle]

This bird is cool and reminds me a bit of hummingbirds who while not having a clear call do have whirring ‘humming’ feathers and both seem to be nectivorous (and hummers are insectivorous too)

[@nicksweeney5176]

8:51 God damned Possums! Good hardly even as Dogfood, excepting in rolls.

[@HenrythePaleoGuy]

Definitely!

[@nicksweeney5176]

@@HenrythePaleoGuy I let my Dogs eat them, but only after I cut off the hands & feet; claws.

[@nicksweeney5176]

@The Philosoraptor 1)I hadn't addressed you. 2)I'm not your bruvah. 3)Removing the hands and the feet is no torture, to a dead Possum; it is Best Practice, prior to offering to Doggies. 4)These Possums are Possums and foreign (Australian) invasives. 5)New Zealand is very separate and quite distinct from North America. 6)You conflate our Possums with the Virginia O'Possum, of South, Central and (increasingly) North America. 7)Do not presume to lecture at me, of "inhumanity".

[@reeyees50]

Just buy normal dog food like everyone else

[@nicksweeney5176]

@@reeyees50 Oh? Why? Is that the superior choice? Are you a Kiwi?

[@uggali]

Bellbirds are locally extinct in my area of Tauranga so my tribe is deprived of te tangi o te kōmako, i’m trying to remedy that by reforesting some small areas in my rohe particularly near whanau’s houses, in and around waterways and at our local health & wellness clinic, with an emphasis on fruiting and flowering native plants. Other than the no native bush I’d say cats both stray and domestic is the biggest hindrance to native bird recovery in my territory from the Wairoa river to the Aongatete river. In the hood where everyone lives we have no remnant trees and we have no restored land either, the bush is mostly on the confiscated blocks and up in the mountains but even heaps of that was logged by my people who leased the land to the Pākehā to employ us to log our forest so we could pay the rates just to keep our ancestral lands, like aye we predate the “government”

[@pal5488]

Lezgoooo

[@nicksweeney5176]

Firrrrst...!!!

[@nicksweeney5176]

@The Philosoraptor You love you as no one I know could ever love you; you are a singularly self-loving creature.