The species is endangered, with just several hundred birds remaining, according to the New Zealand Department of Conservation. Now, rangers have spotted one of the fluffy birds on a trail camera ...
The Center has been working to secure Endangered Species Act protection for eight imperiled New Zealand birds, some of the rarest and most beautiful in the world. Although ornithologists petitioned ...
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.
New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...
The New Zealand Wildlife Service ... program was initiated to boost numbers and create a safety net for the species. Birds were relocated to predator-free sanctuaries such as Tiritiri Matangi ...
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.