Diet Overlap

Common Diet

Didymocheton spectabilis
Elaeocarpus pierrei
Fuchsia excorticata (New Zealand fuchsia)
Geniostoma rupestre
Knightia excelsa (rewarewa)
Neopanax arboreus (Five Finger)
Phormium tenax (New Zealand flax)
Pittosporum crassifolium (stiffleaf cheesewood)
Pittosporum eugenioides (lemonwood)
Pittosporum tenuifolium (tawhiwhi)
Pterophylla racemosa
Ripogonum scandens
Vitex lucens (Puriri)

Common Habitat

New Zealand
North Island temperate forests
Northland temperate kauri forests
Richmond temperate forests

Attributes / relations provided by
1HONEYEATERS 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
2The 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
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