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STREAM STUDY

STREAM STUDY. My picture of a Tui. The Tui. Introduction. Chose Tui because wanted to learn more Could hear Tui singing at our Wellesley stream Wondered how it lived near stream How did not die out What it would eat. Name . Common The Tui Scientific Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

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STREAM STUDY

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  1. STREAM STUDY My picture of a Tui The Tui

  2. Introduction • Chose Tui because wanted to learn more • Could hear Tui singing at our Wellesley stream • Wondered how it lived near stream • How did not die out • What it would eat

  3. Name • Common • The Tui • Scientific • Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae • Family name • Meliphagidae • A honeyeater

  4. Description Other name: a honey eater. Size male: 30 cm. Female: 25cm Weight: 120g/90g Where you can find them: Around trees, streams or tall weeds. Feeding: insects, fruit. Facts: only found in NZ Fast, noisy flyer Birdsong very loud Will chase other birds away

  5. Food chain algae grows leaves also fall into stream, and break up. Sun shines on stream goodness from leaves go into stream insects feeds on algae Tui eats bugs and snails

  6. Female Tui builds the nest, twigs and moss • Lay 2 to 4 eggs • Mother sits on eggs for 14 days • When they hatch, parents feed on insects • Parent feed them for 21 days • Then they are ready to fly • Can live to be12 years old • Predators: cats, bigger birds, possums

  7. Adaptive features • Long, curved beak to get nectar from tree flowers • Came out of the bush and made homes in the town to find more food, like our stream • Living in the trees near our stream will all the supplies they need • Got used to living next to humans

  8. Habitat • Stream, so that trees can grow • Algae grows and bugs eat them • Tui eats the bugs • Tui drops seeds, so more trees grow near the stream • Tuis have nests in the trees and their babies grow up and live in the same habitat • This habitat is not polluted • There is lots of water around • Lots of bugs and nectar from flowers for the Tui to live off

  9. Bibliography • Tui, a nest in the bush. • Meg Lipscombe • The field guide to the birds of NZ • B Heather and H Robertson • Which NZ bird? • Andrew Crowe • Internet • www.birdingwestcoast.co.nz • Wikipedia • www.doc.govt.nz • www.sciencelearn.org.nz

  10. Graph • ? What do I put here

  11. Thanks!

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