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Many endemic New Zealand birds belong to young lineages that date back to landscape changes during the last Ice Age. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Te Papa by Paul Martinson, CC BY-SA ...

They scoured the genome sequences of 168 birds, representing nearlyall living kākāpō at the time, for any genetic hints of how and when the colour difference evolved. It turns out kākāpō ...

Invasive mammals have already removed some native bird species from our cities. It’s why urban forest restoration and predator control are crucial to support the ‘ghosts of predation past’.

(1) The relative densities of birds were compared, vegetation profiles measured and bird food resources assessed in seven exotic conifer plantations and five areas of native Nothofagus forest in New ...

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 ...