What animal features on the NZ 5 dollar?

Yellow-eyed penguin or Hoiho They are found along the south-eastern coastline of the South Island, and on Stewart, Campbell and the Auckland Islands. The hoiho has a distinctive yellow iris and a yellow band of feathers across the back of its head.

1. What is on the NZ 5 dollar note?
2. What animal is on the 5 dollar note?
3. What bird is on the $5?
4. What birds are on NZ coins?
5. Is there a $500 note in NZ?
6. Who is on the $100 NZ Bill?
7. What is a $5 note Called in Australia?
8. When did 5 Note release?

What is on the NZ 5 dollar note?

The explorer Sir Edmund Hillary was depicted on the front of the five-dollar note, with Aoraki / Mount Cook, the tallest mountain in New Zealand at 12,316 feet (3,754 m), shown on the left hand side. ... The penguin shown on the note is the hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin), which is native to New Zealand.

What animal is on the 5 dollar note?

What's on the new $5 banknote

On the $5 banknote, these are the Prickly Moses wattle (Acacia verticillata. ) and the Eastern Spinebill (Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris).

What bird is on the $5?

$5 Note – Hoiho

The yellow-eyed penguin is the largest of New Zealand's penguins that breed on the mainland. Unique to New Zealand, these penguins are one of the world's rarest penguin species. The Māori name for the penguin means 'noise shouter', which references their shrill call made at their breeding sites.

What birds are on NZ coins?

The $1 coin has the most famous New Zealand birds, the Kiwi! The fuzzy, flightless bird has become world famous and an international icon for New Zealand and so we have it pride of place on the dollar coin!

Is there a $500 note in NZ?

In this section you can learn more about our banknotes including how they circulate, how much is in circulation and how they are made. New Zealand has two sets of banknotes in circulation – Series 6 and the new Series 7. Both series are legal tender.

Who is on the $100 NZ Bill?

The new one-hundred-dollar note featured Ernest Rutherford on the front, with the Nobel Prize medal he won in 1908. The Nobel Foundation gave permission for the image of the medal to be used. The medal is overlaid by a graph showing the results of Rutherford's investigations into naturally occurring radioactivity.

What is a $5 note Called in Australia?

In Australia, the Five Dollar note alone has at least fourteen nicknames. Like in the UK, it is called a “fiver”, but other names include “a Fairy Floss”, a “Galah”, a “Skydiver”, a “Pink Lady”, or a “Pink Snapper”.

When did 5 Note release?

The note was introduced on 13 September 2016, with an initial print run of 440 million notes (worth £2.2 billion), over the period of co-circulation.