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. They provide ...

New Zealand’s largest wild bird hospital and rescue centre, which is facing tough times in 2023. Nestled in native bush, it’s the type of retreat that would get a five-star review on TripAdvisor.

Boast and a team of researchers, for example, are using fossilized dung to learn more about the diets of extinct flightless birds called moa that once roamed around New Zealand. Coprolites helped ...

These birds are symbols of hope, proof that with enough willpower, silence can be broken and new songs can emerge. The fight to save New Zealand’s native songbirds is ongoing and full of ...

Aotearoa New Zealand's ... to around 250 birds. Kākāpō come in one of two colors -- green or olive -- which occur in roughly equal proportions. To understand how this color variation evolved ...

FROM a scientific point of view it is of so much importance that native New Zealand birds should be protected that many naturalists will read with interest the following memorandum, which was ...

Predator-Free Miramar, external aims to protect birds in this area of Wellington, New Zealand's capital ... Almost a third of native species have been wiped out since human settlement.

I’ll bet humans weren’t a good thing for the native ecology. Y: They weren’t. About half of all bird species in New Zealand went extinct, due to hunting, introduced species, and changes in ...

DURING the past twenty-five or thirty years many reports have been published in regard to the extinction of New Zealand birds ... with the position of the native birds. When the circulars were ...