the flying toroa

The Flying Toroa.

An Information Report By Mattisin

On a warm summer's day at the seaside you will see the Flying Toroa. The Flying Toroa is a humongous sea bird of New Zealand.

Description

The Flying Toroa has shimmering wings which are two meters long from tip to tip. The Flying Toroa has baby coloured rainbow wings and they have strong flight feathers.

It also has a pointy, peachy, orange beak that is curved to catch fish in the sea and their prey .

Its feet are bright yellow and webbed because they live near the sea and they have their feet to swim.

It’s the size of a bulldog that is 10.kg

Habitat

The Flying Toroa live near the seaside and everyday they mostly flies around the sea and plays with other Toroa.

Diet

The Flying Toroa eats big fish because there beak is a scoopy beak to eat fish. The Flying Toroa eat 2 fish for beacfast, 3 fish for lunch and 5 fish for tea and all together is 10 fish a day. She finds her in boats, the sea and in buckets. No animals or people eat this bird because they think it is posnie but they are not.

Threats and predators

People can be predators to the Flying Toroa. The weather can be a threat too. People make mess and pollute their habitat. Hawks steal the fish and they are left with nothing.  To look after the Flying Toroa we must put more rubbish bins out and use them and nesting boxes to hide the eggs from getting taken and smashed by people and other animals.

The number of Flying Toroa living in New Zealand has been quickly rising because the mother are have babies and the nests areas are safer because of the nest boxes. Today scientists think there are only 72 adult birds left.

Conclusion

As you see this bird lives every where around New Zealand. You will see it at the seaside. Watch out it might eat your fish you catch and you fish and chips.