New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

Study Reveals Ancient Flightless Birds Helped Spreading Colorful Native Fungi, Highlights Ecological Balance It is a finding ...

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 ...

A virulent strain of bird flu continues to spread across the world. Australia, New Zealand and Pacific nations ... These challenges mean Australia’s native bird populations may struggle to ...

Bird flu means mass chicken killing. Some 200,000 hens in Otago were gassed in December to halt the spread of an avian influenza that had become highly pathogenic. Shocking as the numbers sound ...

Bulldog, Ngawha’s most popular and hottest spring, was named after the growling sound it once made as ... crystal cave surrounded with lush New Zealand native bush. Beyond the pools themselves ...

And later that day, as if on cue, all the birds flew out of the trees at ... it was just an earthquake — they had those often in their native New Zealand — and a hotel receptionist assured ...

Depending on the species, scientists might physically count individual plants or animals, or review sound or video recordings ... with monitoring of birds. Our new study focused on 18 common ...