Bathing Bellbird (Anthornis melanura) with a dusting of blue-purple pollen on the face from nectar-feeding, Otago Peninsula, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
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Bathing Bellbird (Anthornis melanura) with a dusting of blue-purple pollen on the face from nectar-feeding, Otago Peninsula, Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
The Bellbird is known as Korimako or Makomako in Maori. It is found through much of New Zealand, its song underpinning the New Zealand dawn chorus where native vegetation and surviving pockets of Bellbirds and other endemic species coincide.