Aotearoa’s Native Plants & Birds Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 1:19 pm Press Release: howard davis ...

Researchers have trained the app to recognise the difference between over 11,000 New Zealand native species. Most impressively it can tell the difference between mānuka and kānuka flowers with 0 ...

Significant numbers of introduced Eurasian skylark and endemic New Zealand pipit were present on open pasture sites. Sophie’s co-supervisor, Associate Professor Lucy Burkitt, says, “This work will be ...

For 16 years, birds across New Zealand have battled each other in a gripping competition to be named Bird of the Year. But this year's front-runner is the native bat — a fact that has ruffled ...

An ecologist at the time reckoned that New Zealand was losing 26m birds a year to predators. In 2011 a celebrity physicist, Sir Paul Callaghan, popularised the dream of a predator-free country.

Many people may assume New Zealand’s native birds arrived via Australia. But our new research on the Auckland Island merganser shows they originated from much further away.

To help increase our understanding of Aotearoa’s unique eco-system, Te Papa Press has produced a pair of small, but delightful volumes on New Zealand’s native birds and plants.