Here's one of my favourite New Zealand birds, the pīpipi. I like their understated elegance. They're small brown birds, darker brown on top and lighter underneath. Even their beak is dark brown on top and light brown underneath. They travel about through the undergrowth in noisy, chirpy gangs looking for insects. It seems like they're enjoying life.
Pīpipi are also in a NZ endemic genus in a NZ endemic family, the same genus as the more well known mohua (NZ yellowhead) and pōpokotea (whitehead).
On Sunday I had fun watching a group of them foraging about me in the matakoura (matagouri) scrub around the Boyle River in the Canterbury mountains. Here's the pick of my photos.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/303938507
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54701188241/
