North Island Robin
Petroica longipes
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 2,786
- Most observed in
- 🇳🇿 New Zealand
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The North Island robin (Petroica longipes; Māori: toutouwai, pronounced [ˈtoutouwai]) is a species of Australasian robin endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. It and the South Island robin (P. australis) of the South Island and Stewart Island were once considered conspecific (and called the "New Zealand robin"), but mitochondrial DNA sequences have shown that the two lineages split prior to the Pleistocene, and support the classification as two different species.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “North Island robin”.