Callaeidae
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{{Taxobox
| color = pink
| name = Callaeidae
| image = Huia Buller.jpg
| image_width = 200px
| image_caption = Huia (Heteralocha acutirostris)
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Chordata
| classis = Aves
| ordo = Passeriformes
| familia = Callaeidae
| familia_authority = Sundevall, 1836
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision =
Callaeas
Philesturnus
Heteralocha
}}
The small bird family Callaeidae is restricted to New Zealand. Only two species survive, one of them critically endangered. A third, the Huia became extinct early in the 20th century.
The Callaeidae are often known as wattlebirds, a term that leads to confusion, as there are other, unrelated species with this same name, notably the large Australian wattlebirds of the family Meliphagidae, which are honeyeaters.
- ORDER PASSERIFORMES
- (many other families)
- Family Callaeidae
- Kokako, Callaeas cinerea
- Tieke, Philesturnus carunculatus (formerly Creadion carunculatus)
- Huia, Heteralocha acuitirostris (extinct)de:Lappenvögel