Diet Overlap

Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae (New Zealand Pigeon)
Zosterops lateralis (Silvereye)

Common Diet

Coprosma rotundifolia
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (kahika)
Dacrydium cupressinum (New Zealand red pine)
Didymocheton spectabilis
Fuchsia excorticata (New Zealand fuchsia)
Muehlenbeckia australis (muehlenbeckia)
Prumnopitys taxifolia (Matai)
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
1O'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
2FLESHY 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
3THE 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
4The relative importance of birds and insects as pollinators of the New Zealand flora, Sandra H. Anderson, New Zealand Journal of Ecology (2003) 27(2): 83-94