When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

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.

Under the new leadership, BirdCare Aotearoa is actively pursuing high-impact grants and collaborative conservation ...

Moa—large, flightless, ostrich-like birds—once roamed around New Zealand. But humans hunted ... on truffles—the island’s only native mammal species are bats and marine creatures.

Bizarre birds like the Kakapo and Secretary bird are uniquely striking birds, making them the weirdest-looking birds in the ...

Spartina traps silt and sand, impacting the open mudflats needed by many migratory protected bird species such as the ...

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

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 ...

A count that year found the total New Zealand population of these rare birds had grown to 500 ... facilities including Auckland Zoo. Feral species that prey on New Zealand’s birdlife have ...