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 New ...

I came home from my 2018 trip with a huge crush on the nation and its people, and wrote a piece about why I wanted to live ...

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

New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...

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.

"Repeated invasions by species are actually very typical of New Zealand's biological heritage throughout geological history," Dr. Lubbe says. "Many of our most iconic endemic birds that are found ...

here are some weirdest-looking birds you won’t believe exist. Despite its owl-like appearance, the Kakapo is actually a parrot. Native to New Zealand, this flightless parrot has moss-green ...

A count that year found the total New Zealand population of these rare birds had grown to 500. With these two populations reaching capacity, the Department of Conservation (DOC) announced on ...

Researchers have found New Zealand's endangered flightless birds are seeking refuge in the locations where six species of moa last lived before going extinct. An international team of researchers ...

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 ...