Diet Overlap

Turdus merula (Eurasian Blackbird)
Anthornis melanura (New Zealand Bellbird)

Common Diet

Arbutus unedo (strawberry tree)
Aristotelia fruticosa (Mountain Wineberry)
Coprosma autumnalis
Coprosma robusta
Coriaria arborea
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (kahika)
Ilex aquifolium (English holly)
Leycesteria formosa (Himalayan honeysuckle)
Melicytus ramiflorus ramiflorus
Muehlenbeckia australis (muehlenbeckia)
Neopanax arboreus (Five Finger)
Podocarpus cunninghamii (Hall totara)

Common Habitat

Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra
Arthur's Pass National Park
Chatham Island temperate forests
Mount Aspiring National Park
South Taupo Wetland

Attributes / relations provided by
1A STUDY OF AVIAN FRUGIVORES, BIRD-DISPERSED PLANTS, AND THElR INTERACTION IN MEDITERRANEAN SCRUBLANDS, CARLOS M. HERRERA, Ecological Monographs, 54(1), 1984, pp. 1-23
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
3Birds and berries: a study of an ecological interaction. Calton, Great Britain, Snow B.K., Snow D.W., 1988, T & AD Poyser. 268 p.
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