r/nzgeograhic

The bird with a big mouth. The bird who leads the flock. The bird who announces the day. The bird who sounds the alarm. The dark bird. The rare bird. The noble, silly, insomniac parrot we’re going to have to learn to live with, all over again.

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The bird with a big mouth. The bird who leads the flock. The bird who announces the day. The bird who sounds the alarm. The dark bird. The rare bird. The noble, silly, insomniac parrot we’re going to have to learn to live with, all over again.

u/KowhaiMedia — 3 days ago

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Five hundred years ago, people started building pā all over northern New Zealand—fortifying their settlements with rows of pointed palisades, cut from the surrounding forests. Why? What were pā defending—or trying to say? The trees themselves—combined with mātauranga Māori—tell a story.

u/KowhaiMedia — 3 days ago