Shining cuckoos (pīpīwharauroa) return to New Zealand each spring after spending winter in the tropics. Like other cuckoos around the world, they lay their eggs in the nests of other species and let the foster parents raise their chicks. Despite this apparently easy existence their numbers appear to be falling – probably because of deforestation on their winter islands in Solomon Islands, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago.
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Sound file from Birds of New Zealand. Compact disc. © Viking Sevenseas NZ, 1980 (PO Box 152, Paraparaumu). All rights reserved.
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