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Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae · Family Meliphagidae

Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae

Family Meliphagidae

Order
Passeriformes
Family
Meliphagidae
GBIF occurrence records
274,199
Countries and territories with records
2
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Charles J. Sharp · Tui (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) Tiritiri Matangi.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 274,199 occurrence records from 2 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). New Zealand accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In New Zealand, this species accounts for 3.3% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae combines the genus name Prosthemadera with the species epithet novaeseelandiae. It is the only species of the genus Prosthemadera in the Warbla app catalog.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 170 species of the family Meliphagidae. This species ranks 14th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Anthochaera carunculata. Its record count is 3.6 times the family average (76,364). The family Meliphagidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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