Flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.
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Examples for "maori hen"
Examples for "maori hen"
1Here and there on the beach and on the grass wandered bright-coloured Maori hens.
2The wekas or Maori hens are small, flightless birds, averaging when full grown about two and three-quarter pounds.
3Hamilton and Sandell went along the coast on the 6th and brought home a dozen Maori hens for the pot.
4Though we saw and caught innumerable young ones of all sizes, we were never able to find the nests of these Maori hens.
1The wood hen is a bird rather resembling the pheasant tribe in plumage, but not so handsome.
2There are wood hens also on the plains; but, though very abundant, they are not much seen.
3From fat wood hens a good deal of oil can be got, and this oil is very valuable for almost anything where oil is wanted.
1I really believe the great desire of Brisk's life was to catch a weka.
2Carpenter said not everyone was likely to be happy and gave the weka as an example.
3Six kiwis, two little blue penguins, a seal pup and 23 weka were among the casualties.
4We had some North Island weka enclosures.
5I looked round, and there was a weka bent on thoroughly investigating the intruder into its domain.
6Soon there will be a rustle, then a rush, and another furious weka will attack the decoy.
7Six kiwi, two little blue penguins, a seal pup and 23 weka were killed by dogs over summer.
8We arose at 7 A.M. next day and breakfasted on porridge, weka, fried heart, "hard-tack" and cocoa.
9The quail and weka were roadkill, but the other birds and mice had been collected from a 1080 drop-zone, he said.
10A compromise is close in the stand-off over what to do with inbred weka on the Open Bay Islands in south-Westland.
11DOC said it spoke to one of the protestors, but it hadn't been able to establish how or when the weka was shot.
12In what could be seen as a comedy of errors, it turned out that the weta was a prey item of the weka.
13He now had a collection of eggs of all birds which nest on the island, with the exception of the weka and the tern.
14Just last week anti-1080 activists put dead birds, including kererū and weka on the steps of Parliament, claiming they were poisoned by the toxin.
15Brisk, too, blundered after them, but I had no fear of his destroying the charm of the day by taking even a weka's life.
16He needs to distance himself from this latest criminal act and tell the police what he knows about who killed this weka, Mr Hague said.