Huia on Branch - Weathering Steel Address Panel - Blazen.Metal

The huia was the largest of New Zealand’s wattlebird species. Sadly, the introduction of mammalian predators, and to a lesser extent human hunting, lead to the demise and ultimate extinction of huia around the 1920s. They showed the most dramatic sexual dimorphism of any bird species, with large difference in the size and shape of the bills of male and female birds. Huia lived in forested areas, where they used their bills to feed on wood-dwelling insects and their larvae.

For your huia on a branch address panel you have the choice of traditional or koru inlay.

Your address will sit proudly on this branch – designed and made in New Zealand, it measures a maximum of 800mm wide. The height will depend on your custom text. Constructed from weathering steel, your address panel will weather naturally, and settle into your landscape over time – forming a beautiful rusty patina.

Perfect as a gift, mounted to your fence or house, or affixed to timber as an entr...