The pekapeka long-tailed bat, one of New Zealand's two native land mammals, entered the Bird of the Year contest for the first time in 2021 and won the top honor Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at ...

Forest & Bird, the New Zealand organization which announced the results Wednesday, allows votes from all over the world and approved Oliver's campaign in the two-week election.

Since 2005, Forest & Bird, a New Zealand-based conservation organization, has been running the “Bird of the Year” competition as a way to raise awareness for native New Zealand bird species ...

New Zealand's Bird of the Year competition has excluded fat parrot kākāpō from from this year's ballot due to the two-time winner's popularity.

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human ...

By the beginning of the 20th century, these birds were all but extinct on the New Zealand mainland. However, the transfer of a small population to Kapiti Island, near Wellington, saw them rebound. It ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...

The population of New Zealand's treasured kākāpō has now reached 252, the highest number of the endangered birds seen in almost 50 years, the country's Department of Conservation announced Tuesday.

More information: Pascale Lubbe et al, Plio‐Pleistocene Environmental Changes Drove the Settlement of Aotearoa New Zealand by Australian Open‐Habitat Bird Lineages, Molecular Ecology (2025 ...

We were after stoats, small carnivorous mammals introduced to New Zealand in the 1870s that are especially deadly to native birds. These animals are lean and lithe with kitten-like faces.