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huia [ˈhʊɪjə] n (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an extinct bird of New Zealand, Heteralocha acutirostris, prized by early Maoris for its distinctive tail feathers [Maori] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These days Maori culture and language are very much a part of New Zealand life in a wide variety of ways, and we have one publisher, Huia Publishers, specializing in books by Maori authors and illustrators--books published in the Maori language, too, a possibility that would have been derided in my childhood when it was confidently predicted that the Maori language (and indeed the whole Maori race) was dying out. Darwin himself proposed that specialized diets led to bill differences in a New Zealand bird, the huia. Prized by the native Maori for their large white-edged tail feathers, the Huia were decimated by the European millinery trade and declared extinct in the 1920s. |
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