Kokako

Maungatapu Saddle was a South Island Kokako (Callaeas c. cinerea).

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Chad has posted earlier this week on the South Island Kokako, likewise Loren Coleman over at Cryptomundo also posted on the birds "extinct classification".

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I had stopped to listen, propped against a tree for only a few minutes, when a Kokako appeared walking along a log which protruded from a thick patch of fern beside a patch of "ploughed" ground.

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Mrs Quaife, who had heard of their possible previous existence in the area, suggested Kokako, but I didn't give much credence to it.

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But the South Island Kokako Investigation Team has kept compiling reports of the grey bird with distinctive orange wattles at each side of the beak.

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New Zealand conservation officials have declared the South Island Kokako extinct, as there haven't been confirmed sightings in 40 years.

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We can hope this is the case with the South Island Kokako.

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I have tried to identify it on various occasions since, but it was only when I overheard a fellow-camper at a Forest and Bird Camp at Waikaremoana mention the characteristic up-ward springing climb of the Kokako that I had a clue to its identity.

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With the recent declaration (re-declaration actually) of the South Island Kokako being extinct in New Zealand by the DoC, it is only fitting to share some "older" accounts not often referred to.

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There seems to be no reason to doubt the accuracy of her identification; especially, as the South Island Kokako has since been reported near Picton.

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