Miromiro / Tomtit

Petroica macrocephala

Perches bolt upright watching for insects, then darts down to snatch them.

Listen — Miromiro / Tomtit

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Photo: Joxean Koret, “A Toitoi in the forest” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source. Resized for this site.

Audio: © Crown Copyright / Department of Conservation (NZ), “North island tomtit song 18ni” · CC BY 4.0 · source. Re-encoded to AAC.