Mohua
Mohua may refer to: *Golden Bay / Mohua, a bay at the northwest end of New Zealand's South Island *Yellowhead (bird) or mōhua, a small bird endemic to the South Island of New Zealand *The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) is a ministry of the Government of India with executive authority over the formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws relating to the housing and urban development in In ...

Golden Bay / Mohua
Golden Bay / Mohua is a large shallow bay in New Zealand's Tasman District, near the northern tip of the South Island. An arm of the Tasman Sea, the bay lies northwest of Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere and Cook Strait. It is protected in the north by Farewell Spit, a arm of fine golden sand that is the country's longest sandspit. The Aorere River, Aorere and Tākaka River, Tākaka rivers are the major waterways to flow into the bay from the south and the west. The bay was once a resting area for migrating whales and dolphins such as southern right whales and humpback whales, and pygmy blue whales may be observed off the bay as well. The west and northern regions of the bay are largely unpopulated. Along its southern coast are the towns of Tākaka and Collingwood, New Zealand, Collingwood, and the Abel Tasman National Park. Separation Point / Te Matau, the natural boundary between Golden and Tasman Bays, is in the park. North-eastern parts of Kahurangi National Park are in Gol ...
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Yellowhead (bird)
The yellowhead or mohua (''Mohoua ochrocephala'') is a small insectivorous passerine bird endemism, endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Once a common forest bird, its numbers declined drastically after the introduction of Black rat, rats and stoats, and it is now near threatened. Taxonomy The yellowhead was Species description, formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with the flycatchers in the genus ''Muscicapa'' and coined the binomial nomenclature, binomial name ''Muscicapa ochrocephala''. The specific epithet is derived from the Ancient Greek ''ōkhros'' meaning "pale yellow" and ''-kephalos'' meaning "-headed". Gmelin based his account on the "yellow-headed fly-catcher" that had been described in 1783 by the English ornithologist John Latham (ornithologist), John Latham in his book ''A General Synopsis of Birds''. The naturalist Joseph Banks ...
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