New Zealand is turning to artificial intelligence to find new ways to protect incredibly rare species of birds that were once thought to be extinct. The country's bird population was decimated when ...

Important new genetic research reveals that New Zealand's bird of the year is actually three subspecies, and this could help ...

Rumours of rare pink grasshoppers navigating the rocky shores of a cold lake had long been whispered about. But now an ...

Forest & Bird, with award-winning musicians Delaney Davidson and Troy Kingi, have today released Kārearea, the first track in the new musical series Waiata Manu – honouring New Zealand's Bird of the ...

In this week’s Pastures Past, she’s found newspaper articles from the 1930s and 1940s on bats. Bats are New Zealand’s only ...

The Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary said it was closing down after running into financial difficulties and had no choice but to ...

An ambitious plan to sequence genomes for 1.85 million eukaryotic species on our planet is underway. It's a massive ...

Four New Zealand photographers earned category prizes in the overall Oceania contest, including Nic Wooding winning the overall Plants and Fungi category with her image Pluteus’ Fireflies.

What began as a few birds gathering quietly at dusk has turned into a nightly ordeal for Gelephu town residents. The rising ...

Fisherman Juan Alberto Infante was in the port of Anconcito, Ecuador, when he noticed a large seabird behaving abnormally.

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