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Fantail

Native fantails and silvereyes are quite common in urban gardens, in orchards and in farmland, as they tend to frequent the open-bush edge. They are probably less vulnerable to predators than many other native species, as they both arrived in New Zealand fairly recently – unassisted, from Australia.

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Kerry-Jayne Wilson, Land birds – overview – Habitats: introduced and native land birds, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/9917/fantail (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerry-Jayne Wilson, published 1 March 2009.