The North Island Piopio, Turnagra tanagra, was a passerine bird of the Turnagridae family. The North Island Piopio is now considered to be extinct. The Māori names were piopio-kata (also transcribed as tiutiu-kata), and in the Kaipara dialect, korohea.
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