A MANUNUI CORRESPONDENT WRITES:
We have just built our home on the banks of the Wanganui River, where there is plenty of native cover with totara, manuka, etc. For years there have been a pair of tuis here. This year they have a nest in a nearby totara tree. One very rainy morning I found a baby tui on the ground. It had fallen from the nest. We decided to try to raise it. With an eye dropper we fed it on honey and water, or condensed milk and water. For solids we gave it fresh meat cut up fine. It has thrived and now flies over the house. In fact, today it disappeared and my wife thought it gone. When we came home my wife saw a bird fly from one tree to another. She called it and it flew to her. It was our tui. It is free to go,. and it will be interesting to see what happens as it matures.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 138, 1 November 1960, Page 5
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