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Story: Hawke’s Bay region

Rook call

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Rooks have a distinctive harsh call, which makes them very unpopular with the human inhabitants of Hawke’s Bay. They are also skilled at stripping horticultural crops of their edible parts, elevating them to true pest status.

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Kerryn Pollock, Hawke’s Bay region – Plants and animals, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/natural-sounds/23884/rook-call (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 22 January 2010, updated 1 July 2015.