My Bird Report.

                         

                  

What is the grey warbler

A gray warbler is a New Zealand native bird. Gray warblers are small birds which only
weigh 6 grams. 20 grey warblers make the weight of 1 tui.

Where are you most likely to find the grey warblers

They live all throughout NZ. They are found mostly on the West Coast (South Island)
and around Auckland (North island). You can only find them in NZ ( we call this
endemic).  They have a trilling song.

The grey warblers feeding behavior

They have a habit of hovering  over plants to get the food they are hunting. They eat
caterpillars, flies, beetles, moths and other small invertebrates( animals that do not
have spine).

Breeding

They breed in spring and summer. Females lay 3 - 5 eggs per clutch.

They make a nest that hangs from a branch. It is pear shaped and there is two little
entrances at both ends of the nest. They make two nest every season. They line their nest
with, moss, wool, thistledown.

Do the grey warbler live in pairs

The grey warblers live in a pair of A male and female.

The threats of a grey warbler

The shining cuckoo. The female shining cuckoo takes away one of the warblers eggs
and replaces it with one of her own eggs. The grey \warbler does not no about this and
raises the egg as her own.  After hatching the cuckoo chick ejects the other gray warbler
nestlings from the nest and is raised alone by the grey warbler parents.

BY DAVID

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