# Koekoe — Learn New Zealand bird calls

> Learn New Zealand bird calls (iPhone/iPad app by Geert in t Veld.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/koekoe/id6781503309 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Geert in t Veld](https://appshunter.io/developer/6781503311)
- Category: Education, Games, Trivia
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 14.0 · 38 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-07-22
- Data updated: 2026-09-17
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/koekoe/id6781503309/reviews.md

## What is Koekoe?

Hear a call. Name the bird.

You're climbing Ruapehu, or walking through Abel Tasman, or camped somewhere on the coast... and something calls from the canopy. You stop. What is that?

Koekoe trains your ear so you always know.

HOW IT WORKS

Listen to a real field recording, then pick the right bird from four options. Get it right and the card gets easier. Get it wrong and it comes back sooner. Over time, the 28 species in the app become as familiar as old friends.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Tūī. Bellbird. Kōkako. Kea. Kākāpō. Grey warbler. Morepork. All 28 NZ native birds, including the rarer ones most people couldn't name. Learn to hear the difference between the cascading notes of a tūī and the liquid bells of a korimako.

Birds in Koekoe: Tūī · Bellbird / Korimako · Kōkako · Morepork / Ruru · Kea · Kākā · Kākāpō · Kākāriki · Kererū · North Island Fantail · Grey Warbler · Whitehead · Tomtit · Yellowhead · Hihi / Stitchbird · Silvereye · North Island Robin · North Island Saddleback · South Island Saddleback · North Island Brown Kiwi · North Island Weka · Takahē · Australasian Bittern · NZ Dotterel · Paradise Duck · NZ Falcon · Blue Duck / Whio · Yellow-eyed Penguin

WORKS IN THE BUSH

No internet required. All recordings are bundled; play it on a ridge, deep in the forest, or anywhere cell coverage doesn't reach.

FREE, NO ADS

Koekoe is free with no ads or in-app purchases. Audio recordings are provided by the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1.1 — 2026-07-27

Fixed: your XP now updates on Home the moment you exit a session early:
no more waiting for a refresh to see progress you've already earned.

Also: layouts tuned for iPhone, with iPad support on the way.

Bird lore corner: the app's name comes from a whakataukī (Māori proverb)
"E koekoe te tūī, e ketekete te kākā, e kūkū te kererū": the tūī chatters,
the kākā cackles, the kererū coos. It's a saying about how every voice is
different, and that's a strength, not a flaw, which is more or less what
this whole app is asking you to learn to hear.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-07-22

No release notes.

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