A small brown flightless bird native to New Zealand that lives hidden in ferns and dense vegetation.
Compound word from 'fern' and 'bird,' named for its habitat among ferns. The bird's scientific name Bowdleria reflects its preference for fernbrakes.
The fernbird nearly went extinct because it lives only in remote New Zealand ferns—so few people ever saw it that scientists thought it was already gone!
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