Royal spoonbills are among several new species that have crossed the Tasman and naturalised in New Zealand. JJ Harrison/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New ...

By Kristine Sabillo Conservation authorities and groups, along with Māori people, recently established a new population of ...

I came home from my 2018 trip with a huge crush on the nation and its people, and wrote a piece about why I wanted to live ...

New research has confirmed that moa, New Zealand’s giant, flightless birds, went extinct within just 300 years of human ...

New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...

From the Galapagos Islands to New Zealand, species of birds that exist today model characteristics of their ancestors that provide clues to the environmental forces that shaped their evolution.

A count that year found the total New Zealand population of these rare birds had grown to 500. With these two populations reaching capacity, the Department of Conservation (DOC) announced on ...

The disappearance of godwits from New Zealand during the months when they breed led the Maori to view godwits—which they call kuaka—as birds of mystery. The sentiment is reflected in a Maori ...

here are some weirdest-looking birds you won’t believe exist. Despite its owl-like appearance, the Kakapo is actually a parrot. Native to New Zealand, this flightless parrot has moss-green ...

"Arrival of people in New Zealand more than 600 years ago caused one of the largest and most rapid losses of native species across the Pacific. The iconic moa were giant, flightless birds that ...

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great changes. The landscape of today bears little resemblance to that of a ...