Definitions
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- noun New Zealand Either of two
extinct passerine songbirds ofNew Zealand : the North Island piopio (Turnagra tanagra) and South Island piopio (Turnagra capensis).
Etymologies
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Maori
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Extirpated species include birds such as the South Island subspecies of the endangered kokako (Callaeas cinerea cinerea) and the extinct piopio (Turnagra capensis), the grayling fish (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus), and plants like Stellaria elantinoides.
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An olive-brown thrush-like songbird, Turnagra capensis, which once inhabited New Zealand but was probably extinct by the mid-20th century. The piopio was of uncertain taxonomic position and has been variously placed in the families Turnagridae, Pachycephalidae, and Paradisaeidae.
July 30, 2008