pīrangirangi
1. (noun) fantail, Rhipidura fuliginosa - a small, friendly, insect-eating bird of the bush and domestic gardens which has a distinctive tail resembling a spread fan.
See also tīrairaka
Synonyms: tītakataka, wakawaka, tīrairaka pango, kōtiutiu, pīwaiwaka, tīwakawaka, tīrairaka, hīwaiwaka, hīrairaka, pīwakawaka, pīrairaka, tīwaiwaka, tīrakaraka, tītīrairaka, tīraureka, pīrakaraka, pītakataka
2. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro, kikitori
toitoi
1. (noun) giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides and other species of bully - stocky fish with large heads, two separate dorsal fins, strong body scales, and pelvic fins located forwards beneath the gill openings. Giant bully is very dark, often black with irregular, golden olive lines on cheeks and a linear series of small, golden speckles on each flank. An endemic fish widespread in esturine and coastal waters of the North and South Islands. Rarely moves more than 2 km inland. Emerges at night to feed.
Ka nui te whaikōrero, ka tukua te kai, arā, te tuna, te inanga, te kōura, te toitoi (JPS 1901:74). / After a lot of speech-making, food was presented, that is eels, whitebait, crayfish and giant bully.
See also kōkopu
2. (noun) common bully, Gobiomorphus cotidianus - an endemic fish found throughout streams and waterways of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Body moderately stout and head bluntly pointed.
See also tīpokopoko
3. (noun) Cook's turban shell, Cookia sulcata - a large, round, heavy univalve that lives under rocks just below low tide.
See also kāeo
Synonyms: karahiwa, kararuri, karekawa, kawari, koeo, koeti, koriakai, korohiwa, korona, kororiwha, kūpā, marapeka, matamatangongo, mātangata, matatangata, kōramu, matapura, tōrire, hānea, kurewha, tākupu, pipi taiari, rehoreho, rereho, taiwhatiwhati, takarape, tanetane, tāwiri, torewai, tungangi, uere, wahawaha, wētiwha, whētikotiko, karahū, tohemanga, pure, tairaki, ngūpara, pipi tairaki, kuharu, kūkuku, kūkukuroa, kukupati, pūkanikani, papahurihuri, hākari, poua, rerekākara, tio, tikoaka, toheroa, tuangi, tuangi haruru, kaitua, kākara, miware, mitimiti, pūpū, ngārahu tatawa, ngārahu taua, peke, ataata, kaitangata, pūpū kōrama, pūpū atamarama, tihipu, tihi, tio para, tio repe, tipa, totoro, totorere, tuatua, tupa, toretore, ngākihi, ngaingai, kākahi, taiawa, rūharu, tūpere, kuhakuha, ngaere, ngākihi hahae, kukupara, ngākihi awaawa, kuku-mau-toka, ngākihi tea, niania, matangongore, matangārahu, maurea, mimiti, karehu, tītiko, ngāruru, ngaeti, papatua, karoro, waharoa, ururoa, wahanui, ngāeo, pipi, tūteure, ngākihi hiwihiwi, ngākihi kopia, papatai, hahari, hohehohe, hūai, kōmore, pātitotito, pātiotio, peraro, pūkauri, pūpū karikawa, pūpū harakeke, pūpū māeneene, pūpū tuatea, pūpū waharoa, pūpū waitai, pūtātara, purewha, pūrimu, ruheruhe, takarepo, takai, tākai, tūroro, piritoka, pōrohe, kahitua, angarite, awatai, hauwai, harihari, hihiwa, hinangi, hoehoe, hopetea, kāeo, whāngai karoro, pīpipi, pūpū rore, pūpū taratara, pāua, poro, tātara, pūpū tarataratea, whētiko, koio, kōrama, karariwha
4. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
5. (noun) brown creeper, Mohoua novaeseelandiae - a small endemic forest bird of the South Island and Stewart Island, reddish-brown crown, rump and tail, ash-grey on face and neck, and light buff underparts. Usually found in small, fast-moving noisy flocks high in the canopy.
See also pīpipi
Synonyms: tītirihika, pipirihika, pīpipi
pīmiromiro
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
kōmiromiro
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
2. (noun) South Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and a short tail living in forest and scrub. The South Island tomtit has a yellowish breast.
See also ngirungiru
Synonyms: piropiro
miromiro
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
Nā, ka tae mai ngā miromiro, ngā pītoitoi, ngā tātāeko, ngā kōriroriro, ia manu, ia manu, me ngā tīrairaka, ka rūpeke mai (NM 1928:22). / So the white breasted tits, the New Zealand robins, the whiteheads, the grey warblers, each bird together with the fantails all assembled.
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, hōmiromiro
kikitori
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
pipitore
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
pīngirungiru
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
māuipōtiki
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
pipitori
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
pīmirumiru
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro, hōmiromiro
hōmiromiro
1. (noun) white-breasted North Island tomtit, Petroica macrocephala toitoi - a little black-and-white bird with a large head and short tail. Lives in forest and scrub.
Tērā kei te aitia mai, ka tae te tohu ki ngā mōkaikai a Timu, ki a Hine-pipi-wai, ki a Hine-papa-wai, he manu hōmiromiro (JPS 1907:222). / They cohabited and an omen reached the Timu's pets, Hine-pipi-wai and Hine-papa-wai, which were tomtits.
See also miromiro
Synonyms: kikitori, kōmiromiro, māuipōtiki, pipitore, pipitori, pīmiromiro, pīngirungiru, pīmirumiru, pīrangirangi, toitoi, miromiro
2. (noun) muttonbird, sooty shearwater, Puffinus griseus, young of the sooty shearwater - a grey-faced petrel with a long slender bill hooked at the tip and silvery-grey flash on the underwings, which nests in underground burrows.
(Te Pihinga Textbook (Ed. 2): 14-16;)
E rua ngā mahinga tītī: ko te nanao ki te pī i te rua; ko te rama pī ka puea i o rātou rua (Te Ara 2011). / There are two stage in harvesting muttonbirds (sooty shearwaters): nanao, when chicks are extracted from their burrows; and rama, when the chicks are caught by torchlight when they come out of their burrows.
2. (noun) spider web.
He māwhai pūngāwerewere i hangā hei kākahu (TW 14/4/1877:131). / Spider webs made into a garment.
3. (noun) fishing net.
4. (noun) māwhai, dodder, Cassytha paniculata - leafless plant parasitic on herbs and shrubs forming tangled masses with stems yellowish green up to 3m long. Found in northern North Island in lowland scrub.
5. (noun) ambush vine, Sicyos mawhai - an herbaceous climber with stems up to 10 m long and 3-5 tendrils. Has vanished from much of its past range over the last 50 or so years. Currently it remains common only on the less accessible northern offshore islands (e.g. Three Kings, Poor Knights and Mokohīnau Islands) and on the Kermadec Islands. In suitable conditions white flowers are produced throughout the year.
kohutapu
1. (noun) shore plover, Thinornis novaeseelandiae - a rare endemic dotterel that was once widespread but is now found only on the Chathan Islands and predator free islands. Crown, neck and underparts greyish brown; white halo around the head above the eyes; black forehead, side of the face and throat in males, dirty brown in females. Underparts white. Bill red tipped black; legs orange.
tuturuatu
1. (noun) shore plover, Thinornis novaeseelandiae - a rare endemic dotterel that was once widespread but is now found only on the Chathan Islands and predator free islands. Crown, neck and underparts greyish brown; white halo around the head above the eyes; black forehead, side of the face and throat in males, dirty brown in females. Underparts white. Bill red tipped black; legs orange.
Synonyms: kohutapu
2. (noun) New Zealand dotterel, Charadrius obscurus - a squat bird with a large head, robust bill and rusty orange chest in breeding birds. Found on beaches, river mouths and estuaries. This name is also sometimes used for the banded dotterel.
See also tūturiwhatu
Synonyms: tākaikaha, tākaikai, turiwhati, tūturiwhati, turiwhatu, turuwhatu, rako, tākahikahi, kūkuruatu, turuturuwhatu, turuatu, tūturiwhatu, tuturuwhatu
