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Story: Ngā manu – birds

Pīpīwharauroa (shining cuckoo)

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Listen to the pīpīwharauroa. This migratory bird’s call was a welcome signal that spring had arrived.

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by G. R. Roberts

Sound file from Birds of New Zealand. Compact disc. © Viking Sevenseas NZ (P O Box 152, Paraparaumu), 1980. All rights reserved.

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Kelly Keane, Ngā manu – birds – Predicting the weather, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/natural-sounds/12164/pipiwharauroa-shining-cuckoo (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Kelly Keane, published 1 March 2009, updated 17 February 2015.