Kereru

The Kereru or Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae (J.F. Gmelin, 1789) is the pigeon of New Zealand. It differs from the European Wood pigeon by the beauty of its plumage of a silver plated green blue contrasting with the glare of its white chest. It has the legs and the nozzle reds.

Reached the statute of species in 2001 in the Newspaper off the Royal Society off New Zealand.

Three subspecies:

  • Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae chathamensis (Rothschild, 1891)
  • Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae novaeseelandiae (Gmelin, 1789)
  • Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae spadicea (Latham, 1802)

It is famous for its greediness and devours with greed the starts-up of the trees and bushes and gave of bays of miro which can make it drunk.

Its flight is noisy and he likes to impress the gallery by taking the enormous slim ones in the airs to fall down to peak in a vertiginous way.

Its flesh was very appreciated Maori S, but it is protected today.

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