TUIS' SONGS
GRATITUDE FOR FOOD
More and More correspondents of the Forest and Bird Protection Society are reporting that they have the songs of tuis as a reward for their planting of shrubs and trees which yield nectar or berries i'or those charming birds. The evidence shows that tuis are not conservatives. They are progressive in their seareh for new sources of food. For example, last spring Mr If. Guthrie-Smith saw nine tuis at one time sipping nectar from the flowers of a big rhododendron. Tins spring the same flowers lured i'on.r tuis to one plant in Mrs Knox Gilmer's garden at Te Mara a., in the Hutt Valley, Recently at York Bay, on the eastern side of Wellington Harbour, nine tuis were seen together in an acacia I ree. A resident of Cashmere Hill., Christchureh, saw tuis on the extreme tips, the rosy fingers, of pine trees. Eviden'l.v they were finding some sweet "stick-jaw." That citizen, during the snowy period of the winter, had sixteen tuis as guests Avhioh had delightful feasts of watered honey. A pair decided to stay on for '■' <• raising of a family near the house.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 79, 25 October 1939, Page 3
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190TUIS' SONGS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 79, 25 October 1939, Page 3
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