Description

Metalbird fantail with baby

Metalbird fantail with baby fantail silhouette… Another cool metalbird, the fantail… The Maori call these birds ‘piwakawaka’. These stunning outdoor metal artworks look great in any garden.

Size:

• Approx. size metal bird fantail with baby silhouette: size: 27.5cm x 24.5cm
  Size box: 310mmx210mm

Another wonderful corten steel artwork

About Fantail – Piwakawaka

Fantails are gorgeous little birds. They use their broad tails to change direction quickly while hunting for insects. It’s quite a challenge to take a photo of a piwakawaka as they move very fast. But so wonderful when you do catch them with their tail fanned out.

What do Fantail – Piwakawaka eat

Fantails use three methods to catch insects:

• Hawking: Used where vegetation is open and the birds can see for long distances. Fantails use a perch to spot swarms of insects and then fly at the prey, snapping several insects at a time.
• Flushing: Used in denser vegetation is called flushing. The fantail flies around to disturb insects, flushing them out before eating them.
• Feeding associations: the fantail follows another animal and also people, to capture insects disturbed by their movements. Fantails frequently follow silvereyes, whiteheads, parakeets and saddlebacks.

Source: Department of Conservation

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