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Summary: Every day Mama Duck proudly counts her clutch of six eggs, 'Tahi, rua, toru, whā, rima, ono'. But one day, there's a big surprise, ' Whitu?' A mysterious seventh egg arrives, and hatches a very strange little duckling who has zebra stripes, a red tuft on his head, and an extraordinary habit of eating his feathers and puking up stinky balls of fish bones. The other ducklings think he's ridiculous. Fed up with being laughed at, the little underbird decides to strike out on his own, but there are dangerous predators about. And will he ever find a friend who'll accept him in spite of all his quirks? Inspired by the real-life story of how the Southern crested grebe came back for the brink of extinction.