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TWO OF OUR best-known endemic songsters, the tūī and the korimako bellbird, may not sell out stadiums like Taylor Swift, but they sing in sublime ways that she can’t.
That’s because all songbird species have a ‘voice box’ or syrinx at the junction of their two bronchial tubes, which vibrate independently to allow a personal duet.
Not all birds use