New esearch shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age, offering clues into future migration patterns.

When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice ...

New University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since ...

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

The New Zealand Wildlife Service ... it represents an incredible recovery for a bird once presumed extinct. The takahe is currently listed as “Endangered” on the IUCN Red List, reflecting ...

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

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 ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

A once-thought extinct native bird is now beating the odds, with a further release of 18 birds into the Rees Valley near ...

For instance, New Zealand has lost 17 bird species ... “Whereas nine Australian bird species (1.2% of the Australian bird species) have become extinct, of which only one occurred on mainland ...

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 ...