{"id":601940,"date":"2026-09-16T08:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/601940\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T08:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:20:12","slug":"moment-of-calm-heres-to-the-riroriro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/601940\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment of Calm: Here’s to the Riroriro"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/p>\n

\nA riroriro, or grey warbler
\nPhoto: Bartek Wypych\n<\/p>\n

It brings up not only its own young, but those of the P\u012bp\u012bwharauroa – the Shining Cuckoo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And\u00a0your adult Riroriro (grey warbler) is one of the smallest birds you’re likely to find in the bush, or your garden.<\/p>\n

Yet it has one of the strongest songs.<\/p>\n

So – given they’re about to raise a bunch of cuckoos, we thought we’d honour them with this week’s “Sonic” Moment of Calm.<\/p>\n

Bryan Crump recorded one plucky bird in the trees beside the Pukeahu War Memorial Park in Wellington.<\/p>\n

The good news for Riroriro is they raise\u00a0a brood of their own chicks in late winter\u00a0before the P\u012bp\u012bwharauroa return from their tropical island holiday,<\/p>\n

Most of the second clutch the Riroriro lay will end up kicked out of the nest and replaced by cuckoo eggs once the P\u012bp\u012bwharauroa\u00a0arrive later this month and early October.<\/p>\n

Bur thanks to those double Riroriro shifts, we get to enjoy the call of the first cuckoos of spring, and the call of the Riroriro all year around.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Shining<\/p>\n

\nA\u00a0P\u012bp\u012bwharauroa doing what comes naturally – resting.
\nPhoto: By Mcbeath k – Own work, CC BY-SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A riroriro, or grey warbler Photo: Bartek Wypych It brings up not only its own young, but those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,147,406],"class_list":["post-601940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}