fun facts:

* Fantails live for about 3 years.

* The success of the species is due to the fantail’s early breeding. females can lay as many as 5 clutches in one season, with between 2–5 eggs per clutch.

* There about 8 cm tall.

* Weight is about 8 grams.

* 15-18 cm long.

* There moari name is Pīwakawaka.

Community of fantail

Habitat:
The natural habitat of the fantail is within our forests.Fantails can also be found in a range of places all through New Zealand as long as there a quite a few trees and twigs to make a nest.So like it could live in a park.

Environment:
fantails have to be around lots of trees and insects to survive. They need lots of sticks and twigs because they will need a nest.

Relationships with other animals:
fantails live with other native and introduced animals from NZ forest such as possums, ferrets, stoats and some other New-Zealand birds like the Kea,Morepork etc. They eat berries and small insects that's near by.

The fantail is very lucky because they are good flyers and are far from extinction they have good relationships with other animals.In new zealand we have heeps of forests and trees for fantails and a very good enviorment.  

Endangered Aotearoa

Endangered Aotearoa
Some things that could threaten the fantail

INDIGENOUS: Hardly any native New Zealand animals threaten or harm the fantail.
INTRODUCED: lots of introduced animals threaten the fantail. Mostly when they are very young because there not as good flyer's but some animals that threaten the fantail is= Cats, Rats, Stoats and mynas. But fantails aren't actually endangered and not becoming extincted at all.
HUMANS: humans also do not harm fantails much unless they like might take down a park or small forest and turn it into something else but humans dont really threaten them.

The animals such as cats and stoats etc dont harm the fantail's much because they are very good flyers and can change direction very quickly because of its fantail. 

We can keep fantails not endangerd by being green and good to our enviorment and look after our forests.

Adaptations of fantail

Adaptions of the Fantail

Structural adaptations:


- crown
- forehead
- whiskers
- beak

- chin
- eye
- throat
- breast
- feet
- claw
- leg
- wings
- rump
- back
- fantail



Behaviour of the fantail:

- Creative
- Playful
- Hyper
- spends most of there time looking for insects.
- aren't shy around human.
- fluttery




Physiological:

what do New Zealand fantails use there tail for??

- fantails are insect eaters so they have to be quick at changing directions to get the insect.

Energy Flow of the Fantail

Energy Flow of the Fantail

Food chains of the fantail:

* Small insects - Fantails - Stoats, possums etc.

* Berries - Fantails - Stoats, possums etc.

* Fantail eggs - Rats - Hawk (NZ)

Food web:

Evaluate:

If the fantail was removed from the ecosystem it is in. It wouldn't do much harm because the animals that actually eat the fantail for example the stoat eats other things such as birds eggs, and other small birds.

The things that the fantails eat like small insects and berries would have more. Because the fantail wont be eating them.

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