Diet Overlap

Common Diet

Alectryon excelsus
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (kahika)
Dacrydium cupressinum (New Zealand red pine)
Didymocheton spectabilis
Elaeocarpus pierrei
Fuchsia excorticata (New Zealand fuchsia)
Hedycarya arborea (Pigeonwood)
Muehlenbeckia australis (muehlenbeckia)
Nestegis cunninghamii
Prumnopitys taxifolia (Matai)
Ripogonum scandens
Vitex lucens (Puriri)

Common Habitat

Arthur's Pass National Park
Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands
Chatham Island temperate forests
Fiordland temperate forests
Mount Aspiring National Park
Nelson Coast temperate forests
New Zealand
North Island temperate forests
Northland temperate kauri forests
Rakiura Island temperate forests
Richmond temperate forests
South Island montane grasslands
Southland temperate forests
Westland temperate forests

Attributes / relations provided by
1THE IMPORTANCE OF BIRDS AS BROWSERS, POLLINATORS AND SEED DISPERSERS IN NEW ZEALAND FORESTS, M.N. Clout and J. R. Hay, NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, VOL 12, (SUPPLEMENT) 1989, pp. 27-33
2O'Donnell, Colin F J and Dilks, Peter J, Foods and Foraging of Forest Birds in Temperate Rainforest, South. Westland, New Zealand, NZ J Ecology 18(2) (1994) pp. 87-107
3FLESHY FRUITS OF INDIGENOUS AND ADVENTIVE PLANTS IN THE DIET OF BIRDS IN FOREST REMNANTS, NELSON, NEW ZEALAND, PETER A. WILLIAMS and BRIAN J. KARL, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1996) 20(2): 127-145
4HONEYEATERS AND THE NEW ZEALAND FOREST FLORA: THE UTILISATION AND PROFITABILITY OF SMALL FLOWERS, Isabel Castro and Alastair W. Robertson, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (1997) 21(2): 169-179