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Whio live in turbulent white-water rivers and remote high-country waterways. They are named for the male’s call – whio means whistle in Māori.
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Noho ai te whio ki ngā awa kohuka i te tuawhenua. Ahu mai ai tōna ingoa i te tangi a te toa, ‘whio whio’.
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) is named for its gunmetal-blue plumage. The Māori name whio refers to its call, an odd repeated whistle: ‘whio-whio-whio’. The duck is unusual in that it feeds on invertebrates, diving down to scrape them from boulders, using its specially adapted beak.
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Tapaina ai te whio (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchosi) mō tōna tangi ‘whio-whio-whio’. He rerekē tēnei manu, inarā he manu kai hātaretare, arā, mā te tirikohu ki te wai kia ketuketu i ngā toka me ōna ngutu.
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The male kiwi’s cry was said to be ‘koire’ or ‘hoire’, and the female’s was ‘poāi’. The shrill whistle of the male calling its mate sounded like ‘kiwi’ – so this may be the origin of its name. Others believe that the kiwi’s name is adapted from kivi, the bristle-thighed curlew, which early Māori settlers may have remembered from their Polynesian homeland.
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Ko te tangi a te toa kiwi ko ‘koire’, ‘hoire’ rānei, ko te tangi a te uwha he ‘poāi’. He rite te tangi a te toa mō te uwha ki te ‘kiwi’ – koirā pea te takenga o tōna ingoa. Ki ētahi atu, i ahu mai te ingoa o te kiwi i te ‘kivi,’ he manu i mahue atu i Hawaiki i te heke o ngā tūpuna ki Aotearoa.