New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand strikes the traveler first of all with its amazing fauna and flora. There doesn't seem to be a single familiar plant or wild animal here. Thanks to the secluded location of the islands, life here has developed in isolation.

First, there were no mammals. Only humans and a few species of bats were able to reach the archipelago from Australia. No mammals means no predators roaming the forest. And therefore, why fly? Many New Zealand birds became lazy, their wings gradually atrophied, and now we have an amazing variety of running, but mostly leisurely wandering, non-flying birds. More than 30 species of birds do not fly here.

New Zealand Самой удивительной здешней птицей считается киви, благодаря своему мохнатому покрову. Но кроме киви в Новой Зеландии есть еще большое количество нелетающих птиц, удивительных по внешности и интересных по повадкам. Здесь обитает «зеленый нестор» – очень большой и красочный попугай, еще совиный попугай, живущий в норах, и птица туи, которая славится таким удивительно нежным голосом, что в Новой Зеландии девочкам часто дают имя Туи.

There is also the carnivorous giant parrot kea. Earlier it was ruthlessly exterminated by cattle farmers, who believed that the kea had a habit of swooping down on grazing sheep and tearing pieces of meat out of their backs, which modern ornithologists deny. Unfortunately, the exterminated giant moa birds have not survived to this day. It is said that they weighed four hundred kilograms and were three meters high.

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