"weka" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Maori weka.",
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          "ref": "1964, Forest and Bird (issues 151-170, page 15)",
          "text": "[…] riroriros would be twittering overhead, with a shy weka peeping round a tree trunk. Wekas were very common then; they were our weather forecasters. Before rain their calls were always louder and repeated more frequently."
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          "ref": "1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 374:",
          "text": "Thin darned socks, and old old clothes. The greatcoat. A superb weka feather cloak.",
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        "The Lord Howe woodhen or woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand."
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        "(New Zealand) The Lord Howe woodhen or woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand."
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  "etymology_text": "From Maori weka.",
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