New Zealand wren
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[edit]Noun
[edit]New Zealand wren (plural New Zealand wrens)
- A passerine bird of the family Acanthisittidae, including two living and several extinct species in four or five genera. [from 19th c.]
- 2016 October 19, Hanneke Meijer, “Why you can thank geology for your morning songbird chorus”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Suboscines (Tyranni) are mostly found in the Neotropics, whereas the small New Zealand wrens (Acanthisitti) are limited to, you guessed it, New Zealand.
Translations
[edit]bird of the family Acanthisittidae
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