North Island robin

The North Island robin (Petroica longipes; Māori: toutouwai, pronounced [ˈtoutouwai])[2] is a species of Australasian robin endemic to the North Island of New Zealand.

It and the South Island robin (P. australis) of the South Island and Stewart Island were once considered conspecific (and called the "New Zealand robin"), but mitochondrial DNA sequences have shown that the two lineages split prior to the Pleistocene, and support the classification as two different species.

They are sexually dimorphic, with males having darker plumage than the females and being slightly larger.

[5] Populations have been reestablished in the Zealandia sanctuary in Wellington, at Bushy Park near Whanganui, and at Moehau on the Coromandel Peninsula.

Numerous invertebrate prey are taken, including cicadas, earthworms, wētā, snails, and spiders.