Passeriformes

New Zealand Wattlebirds (Callaeidae)

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• Medium-sized to large passerines with short rounded wings, relatively long tail, sturdy legs with unusually long tarsus, distinctive orange or blue fleshy wattle below gape, and robust bill; plumage blue, or black and reddish-brown.
• New Zealand.
• Forest, now mostly regenerating forests on offshore islands.
• 2 genera, 3 species, 3 taxa.
• 1 species threatened; 2 species extinct since 1600.