Criteria one: Explain the importance of one native bird to Māori in a local context.
The whakapapa of the native bird is explained. Can you trace it back to Rangi and Papa?
The significance to tikanga Māori associated with the native bird is explained. Why is this bird important to Māori - what whakataukī and pūrākau mention this bird?
The importance of the native bird to local Māori is described? This means the local Māori in the area where the bird lives.
Criteria two: Explain the characteristics that help the native bird to survive in its environment.
The environment of the native bird is described in terms of its physical characteristics. Is is wetlands, dry, forest, desert? Describe the features of the bird’s habitat.
The behavioural characteristics of the native bird are described in terms of those that enable it to survive in its environment. What does the bird do to survive? Does it sing loudly to scare predators, does it stay very still to hide?
The feeding characteristics of the native bird are described in terms of those that enable it to survive in its environment. What does it eat. What does it have to do to get it’s food?
The territorial characteristics of the native bird are described in terms of those that enable it to survive in its environment. What does it do to keep other birds or pests away from it’s nests or from babies? How does it build nests?
Criteria three: Explain the environmental relationships that the native bird develops within its own habitat.
The position of the native bird in the food chain of other non-marine species is described. What eats or hunts this bird? What does this bird eat or hunt? Does it have other birds that it works together with?
One significant relationship that the native bird has developed with another non marine animal or plant species in their environment is described. Think of important food sources, or does the bird help with plant health, is there an insect that it interacts with?
The nature of the selected relationship is described in terms of how this relationship contributes to the survival of the native bird. How does the relationship that you described to answer the above question help this bird survive?
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