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I have only have had short smatterings of time in New Zealand, but of all the birds I have encountered there, the tui so far is my favorite. They are corvid-like in their cool brilliance. 
The two bulbous decorations on a tui's throat are actually vocalization organs that enable them to imitate a wide range of sounds, including human voices. Probably the most famous tui was Woof Woof. He lived in this same facility, and died in 2011.
This one features a bit of an interview with Bob, the man who oversees the center's recovery work and whose voice Woof-Woof is imitating. Some birds are unreleasable, but most of the birds at the center eventually wind up back in the wild.
This is Sparky, the kiwi at the center who lost a leg to a possum trap and so is unreleasable.
