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KUKI THE KUKUPA
Kuki the Kukupa is a Cook Islands Fruit Dove (Maori name – kukupa)
The kukupa has a green plumage and yellow on the underside with a red patch on lower breast; a magenta cap and white tail tip.
The kukupa is the Cook Islands’ most colourful native bird.
It is common in the mountain forest of Rarotonga, and in makatea forest of ‘Ātiu, making it endemic to two of the Cook Islands.
Kuki represents the Cook Islands colours (green, white and yellow) as well as green, yellow and red of the Pacific Mini Games colours:
