The tui is a New Zealand native bird with a distinctive white throat tuft and song (it's also a local beer). It can be readily seen and heard in Wellington's Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, where the population has increased owing to the exclusion of predators. It can be difficult to get a decent photograph of these birds as they feed on fruit, nectar, and insects up in the trees. They ordinarily seem skittish, dashing away at altitude with a whirring noise resulting from a notch in the wing feathers. I shot around 75 images of tui before I had the sheer luck to be near a low stand of flax as a pair landed to feed. Look at the load of pollen he has on his beak!
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Tui
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