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Kōrero: Hawke’s Bay region

Rook call

Audio file

Rooks have a distinctive harsh call, which makes them very unpopular with the human inhabitants of Hawke’s Bay. They are also skilled at stripping horticultural crops of their edible parts, elevating them to true pest status.

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Natural Sciences Image Library of New Zealand

Reference: DSCF8256

by Peter E. Smith

Sound file from Department of Conservation

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Kerryn Pollock, Hawke’s Bay region – Plants and animals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/natural-sounds/23884/rook-call (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 22 January 2010, updated 1 July 2015.