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

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

Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard is cautiously optimistic that a bird flu outbreak at an Otago farm has been stamped out, ...

Fewer than 40 New Zealand fairy terns survive - making it six times rarer than the kākāpō, which is often treated as the ...

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

An Auckland fishing company has been fined $16,500 for failing to use the correct bird-scaring gear and providing a false ...

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.

Chilean officials are stunned by an “extremely unusual” visit from an intrepid New Zealand penguin from an island more than ...

Shane Jones wants to undo a 2021 Forest & Bird court case limiting the ability to consider economic factors in fishery ...

A new kiwi champion has been crowned. I'm of course talking about the Mr Bear New Zealand competition which took place at the ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.