NZ Native Bird Week: Fantails can have multiple nests per season

NZ Native Bird Week: Fantails can have multiple nests per season

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The fact of the day, day day day day. Do
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do do do do do.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
What's that that's warning is bird noise that you p
waka whaka. It is some native birds all week.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Native birds are a week and today we're having a
look at the fantail first of all, and my research
of the fan taw, I learned that this fantails.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
All over the world.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Oh my god, they look a little bit different. But
our fan tailes I thought we had the fan tailes
around the world.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
The first time I went over seas and through a wistfield,
I was.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Like, you're watching Chadding marathon.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Was that was out and you've got them in America.
I was like, what that's ridiculous. Seeing a Micael Hill
jeweler overseas, Oh my god. I didn't go so well.
I don't know if there's too many left. Every now
and then there's a glassons in Australia. You're like, that's insane.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
What are you doing here?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
What do you doing here? Can you take get away
from my old life? I'm trying to start a fresh.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Okay, I'm coming for a twenty dollars time. So the
Phantai or p walker Walker as it's called anonymous with
New Zealand.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Native to New Zealand.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
But at some stage the common ancestor they all had
was it has been around there. They're all around the place.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Let's say Australasia.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Native to Australasia, right, but there's different So those are
the pantiles. We're looking to be a fanteb but the
overall is a genus, the family. You can't say that
on the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I don't need to see your genus.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Wow. Hr He tried to show us his genus at
eight thirty three in the morning. Genus.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
I don't want to see it. Genius.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
No, like domain, kingdom, class order family genus.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
There's other pantos around the world. What yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
But today's fact today about them is that when they
build their nests. This is from a Blackburn study and
Blackburnd in New Zealand. They were observed fantails have an
average of four nests in a season, sometimes five, and
they lay eggs and each.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Nest meg how much of the moving company is making lot?
Why are they abandoning their nests.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
They're not abandoning them. They've got multiple on the go.
In case one's corrupted secret families. Yeah, ye, secret families.
But it's the same fantails in each nest apparently, right,
it's going to hear jingy bits if they lose one. Yeah, okay, totally,
and they so they nest and peers and then they
never apparently go to the same nest at the same time,
just to he again. It's like how the president and

(02:33):
the vice president aren't allowed on the same plane.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Yes, they're kind of doing a long distance relationship.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, hoping, and and then yeah, looking after the kids
and you babysit, I'm off to the pub. But the
pub's just another et cetera, et cetera, And they have
little tails on the bottom so that predators can't identify
it as a nest from below.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
I love this.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
So today's fact of the Day fan tails is that
fantails can have multiple nests per season.