Earlier in the month I was at the #BoyleOutdoorEducationCentre, helping teach #LincolnUniversityNZ's third-year field ecology course. It's where students do their own research. One student, Katie, was eager to do a study comparing tūī and korimako. We convinced her not to as we hardly ever see tūī.
Then, perhaps as expected, a tūī ended up visiting a flowering NZ flax right by the lodge every day.
Tūī are like that. Flamboyant contrarians.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/148717407
#birds #Aoteara #NZ #tui