Pūtangitangi / Paradise Shelduck

Tadorna variegata

Pairs mate for life — the male's deep honk and female's higher 'zeek-zeek' call back and forth.

Listen — Pūtangitangi / Paradise Shelduck

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Photo: Michal Klajban, “A pair of paradise shelducks, Lake Victoria, Christchurch” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source. Resized for this site.

Audio: © Crown Copyright / Department of Conservation (NZ), “Paradise duck song” · CC BY 4.0 · source. Re-encoded to AAC.