Pīpipi/brown creeper can be spotted on some of the Great Walks. Photo: Edin Whitehead

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You can find this bird on your Great Walk, writes Shaun Barnett

Beady-eyed, grey-faced, yellow-fronted, brown-backed tiny insectivores that flock together with birds of a different feather. That’s one way to sum up one of our smallest endemic birds, known as the pīpipi or brown creeper.  The Māori name pīpipi seems a fair representation of their most common chittering call, although their repertoire also includes canary-like notes […]
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