Anthornis melanura, Bellbird, New Zealand, Makomako
A medium-sized bird with a beautiful song. The male and female differ in colour. The male bird has a purplish head, greenish back and breast and yellowish underparts. The female is brownish. Anthornis melanura.
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Date:
1956
From:
Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].
Ref:
E-716-019/023
Description:
A close view of a bellbird feeding hungry babies, along with more distant views of bellbirds at their nests
Quantity: 5 drawing(s).
Physical Description: P...
Date:
1950
From:
Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].
By:
Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965
Ref:
A-380-011
Description:
Shows eight studies of a bellbird perched on a branch.
Other Titles - Bellbirds
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 222 x 332 mm.
Date:
1950 - 1952
From:
Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].
By:
Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965
Ref:
A-380-016
Description:
Shows six studies of a bellbird.
Title taken from similar work at A-380-011.
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 191 x 277 mm.
Date:
1948
From:
Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].
By:
Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965
Ref:
A-380-017
Description:
Shows a study of four bellbirds perched on the branches of a shrub.
A note on the back indicates that the female is on the lower branch, and the other three ...
Date:
1948 - 1952
From:
Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].
By:
Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965
Ref:
A-380-018
Description:
Shows a bellbird with purple head, feeding the open mouths of three chicks on a nest in palm tree leaves.
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description:...
Date:
1948 - 1952
From:
Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].
By:
Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965
Ref:
A-380-019
Description:
Preliminary watercolour sketch shows a bellbird with purple head, standing on a nest in palm tree leaves.
This may be a preliminary study for A-380-018.
Qu...
Date:
1977
Ref:
B-108-029-a/031-a
Description:
Contents: Korimako - New Zealand bellbird, Anthornis melanura. - Tauhou - New Zealand silvereye, Zosterops lateralis. - Piwakawaka - New Zealand fantail, Rhi...
Date:
10 Oct 1985
From:
John Kendrick natural sound history library and film collection
Ref:
OHInt-0834-010
Description:
Adults; morning chorus, some good flight noise; locality Waikakaho village site, Marlborough; level site above Waikakaho stream, beech forest with some podoc...
Date:
7 Apr 1993 - 07 Apr 1993
From:
John Kendrick natural sound history library and film collection
Ref:
OHInt-0834-011
Description:
Adults; morning chorus; locality Tiritiri Matangi Island, Wattle Valley track; wattle trees and regenerating native forest; moving between song perches; dis...
Date:
1958 to 1959
From:
Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia
By:
Kiwi Colour Slides
Ref:
PA12-8801
Description:
Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams'). Purchased slides of New Zealand plants including golden tainui and wineberry (makomako); ...
From:
Various artists :[Original illustrations for the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A H McLintock, 1966].
Ref:
A-332-121
Description:
A side view of a perching bellbird
Reproduced in Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, Vol 1, p. 193
Other Titles - Bellbird
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Des...
Date:
1983-1984
From:
Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013 :Photographs
Ref:
PA12-6504
Description:
Bellbird and nest of chicks, Kapiti island, November 1984.
Birds on the Chatham Islands, photographed in October 1983. These include: Weka. Chatham Island ...
Date:
November 1984
From:
Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013 :Photographs
Ref:
PA12-6503
Description:
Photographs of birds on Kapiti Island. Silvereye (Tauhou) and nest of chicks. Fantail (Piwakawaka) and nest of chicks. Bellbird (Korimako) and nest of chi...
Date:
1956
By:
Acres, Avis, 1910-1994
Ref:
E-502
Description:
Contains watercolour and pencil sketches of wood pigeons, North Island robin, Charlie kaka, Willie weka, green parakeets, tui, pukeko, black-backed gulls and...
Date:
1 Feb 1983 - 6 Aug 1983 - 14 Nov 1984 - 4 May 1985 - 7 Mar 1986 - 01 Feb 1983 - 07 Mar 1986
From:
John Kendrick natural sound history library and film collection
Ref:
OHInt-0834-009
Description:
Track 1: Adult; alarm calls; locality Kapiti Island, on summit track close to Red Whare, in mixed broadleaf forest; making short flights from perch to perch,...
Date:
1956
From:
Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].
Ref:
E-716-017/018
Description:
Studies of a baby bird, possibly fallen from its nest; drawings of a dead bellbird chick and of the head of a kakariki.
Quantity: 2 drawing(s).
Physical De...
Date:
1952 - 1955
By:
Acres, Avis, 1910-1994
Ref:
E-503
Description:
Contains sketches of details of blossom trees, banded dotterel and chick, pied stilt chick, cottage and garden under trees, baby thrush on gorse branch, grey...
Date:
1930 - 1959
From:
Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].
By:
Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965
Ref:
A-383-007
Description:
Shows a bellbird taking nectar from a red puriri flower.
Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s).
Physical Description: Digital inkjet print, A4 size
Date:
1945 - 1955
From:
Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].
By:
Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965
Ref:
A-380-014
Description:
Shows a female and a male bellbird, on the branch of a shrub with red puriri flowers.
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 285 x ...
Date:
1932 - 1934
From:
Daff, Lily Attey, 1885-1945 :[New Zealand birds] / L A Daff [ca 1933]
Ref:
A-271-005
Description:
A male bellbird perched on kowhai in flower and leaf
Original illustrations for the artist's An album of New Zealand birds. Wellington : Reed, 1974; publis...
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