Contents

Contents : The kauri tree; The five great podocarps [rimu, kahikatea, totara, matai, miro]; Scarlet flowering ironwoods [pohutakawa, rata]; Honeyeaters [tui, bellbird, stitchbird]; Trees with tropical relatives [taraire, tawa, titoki, kohekohe, karaka, puriri]; Beech forest [silver beech, hard beech, red beech, black beech, mountain beech]; Forests beneath the sea; Forests in the clouds; Nikau palm; Flowering trees & shrubs [kowhai, tawari, broom, poroporo, haekaro, korokio, koromiko, kakabeak, ribbonwood, kotukutuku, kamahi, toru, rewarewa (New Zealand honeysuckle), manuka, red mistletoe]; Short-tailed bat; The tuatara; Forest birds [New Zealand pigeon (kereru), kaka, Kakariki (red-crowned, yellow-crowned parakeet), long-tailed cuckoo, shining cuckoo, morepork, kingfisher, kakapo, weka, kiwi, grey warbler, tahou (white-eye, wax-eye, silver-eye), rifleman (titipounamu), yellowhead (mohua), whitehead, brown creeper, robin, fantail, tomtit, stitchbird, bellbird, tui, saddleback, kokako]; Tree ferns and other ferns [Native - kidney, filmy, king, crepe, creek, umbrella, fork]; Forest vines [clematis, supplejack, passion vine, climbing red rata vine, climbing white rate, hound’s tongue, kiekie, thread fern, bush lawyer, mangemange, leather-leaf fern, climbing golden rata]; Epiphytes [epiphytic orchids]; The forest floor [mosses, lichens, liverworts, ferns, fungi, orchids, lizards, frogs, invertebrates]; Wattlebirds [kokako, saddleback]; Cabbage trees; The kiwi [brown kiwi, great spotted kiwi, little spotted kiwi]; New Zealand’s extinct birds [moa,; The kakapo; the weka; The weta; Tiritiri Matangi Island;