Meanings of weka in English

I really believe the great desire of Brisk's life was to catch a weka.

Carpenter said not everyone was likely to be happy and gave the weka as an example.

Six kiwis, two little blue penguins, a seal pup and 23 weka were among the casualties.

We had some North Island weka enclosures.

I looked round, and there was a weka bent on thoroughly investigating the intruder into its domain.

Soon there will be a rustle, then a rush, and another furious weka will attack the decoy.

Six kiwi, two little blue penguins, a seal pup and 23 weka were killed by dogs over summer.

We arose at 7 A.M. next day and breakfasted on porridge, weka, fried heart, "hard-tack" and cocoa.

The quail and weka were roadkill, but the other birds and mice had been collected from a 1080 drop-zone, he said.

A compromise is close in the stand-off over what to do with inbred weka on the Open Bay Islands in south-Westland.

DOC said it spoke to one of the protestors, but it hadn't been able to establish how or when the weka was shot.

In what could be seen as a comedy of errors, it turned out that the weta was a prey item of the weka.

He now had a collection of eggs of all birds which nest on the island, with the exception of the weka and the tern.

Just last week anti-1080 activists put dead birds, including kererū and weka on the steps of Parliament, claiming they were poisoned by the toxin.

Brisk, too, blundered after them, but I had no fear of his destroying the charm of the day by taking even a weka's life.

He needs to distance himself from this latest criminal act and tell the police what he knows about who killed this weka, Mr Hague said.