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

New Zealand is well known for its Bird of the Year ... sticky slime out of small projections near its mouth, trapping its prey. It then uses its jaws to start cutting the prey up, while injecting ...

Feral species that prey on New Zealand’s birdlife ... In 2024, researchers found many of New Zealand's endangered flightless birds, including the takahē, weka and great spotted kiwi, are ...

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 ...

From the Galapagos Islands to New Zealand, species of birds that exist ... One Web site that provides information on identifying birds of prey is "Raptor Identification Methods" at http ...

Dr Gavin Hunt, a New Zealand biologist, spent three years observing the birds. He found that they used two different forms of hooked “tool” to pull grubs from deep within tree trunks.

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 ...

Pascale Lubbe currently receives funding from the Marsden Fund. Michael Knapp has received funding from The Royal Society of New Zealand (Rutherford Discovery Fellowship). Nic Rawlence receives ...