North Island robin / Toutouwai (Petroica longipes)

The North Island robin is a species of Australasian robin endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. It and the South Island robin of South and Stewart Islands were once considered conspecific , but mitochondrial DNA sequences have shown that the two lineages split prior to the Pleistocene and supported the split into two species. The North Island robin is distributed mostly in the centre of North Island, with small relict populations in the north and south in Moturua Island in the Bay of Islands,.. more