Diet Overlap

Common Diet

Aristotelia fruticosa (Mountain Wineberry)
Coprosma autumnalis
Coprosma robusta
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides (kahika)
Dacrydium cupressinum (New Zealand red pine)
Didymocheton spectabilis
Elaeocarpus pierrei
Fuchsia excorticata (New Zealand fuchsia)
Geniostoma ligustrifolium
Geniostoma rupestre
Ileostylus micranthus (Mistletoe)
Knightia excelsa (rewarewa)
Leycesteria formosa (Himalayan honeysuckle)
Macropiper excelsum
Melicytus ramiflorus ramiflorus
Muehlenbeckia australis (muehlenbeckia)
Neopanax arboreus (Five Finger)
Phormium tenax (New Zealand flax)
Pittosporum crassifolium (stiffleaf cheesewood)
Pittosporum eugenioides (lemonwood)
Pittosporum tenuifolium (tawhiwhi)
Podocarpus cunninghamii (Hall totara)
Pterophylla racemosa
Sophora microphylla (Kowhai)
Vitex lucens (Puriri)

Common Habitat

Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra
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
South Taupo Wetland
Southland temperate forests
Westland temperate forests

Attributes / relations provided by
1FLESHY 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
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
3HONEYEATERS 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
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