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 University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from ...

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

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.

New University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since ...

Hitchhiker spores in a bird gut would have been carried into ... reveal that colourful truffle-like fungi endemic to NZ were consumed by extinct moa (Dinornithiformes). Biology Letters.

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

A once-thought extinct native bird is now beating the odds, with a further release of 18 birds into the Rees Valley near ...

Feral species that prey on New Zealand’s birdlife have caused havoc across both islands, and more than 80 per cent are now ...

The northern species of takahē is extinct and much of its southern ... In 2024, researchers found many of New Zealand's endangered flightless birds, including the takahē, weka and great spotted ...

Waikato pigeon fancier Ray Hooker’s interest in his grandmother’s and father’s pigeons, budgies, canaries and cockatiels ended up with him being given the responsibility for them at 11 years old. “My ...

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