New Zealand's annual bird election is contested by cheeky parrots, sweet songbirds and cute, puffball robins. This year’s ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the hotly-contested race, which seeks to raise awareness of the country's many native species considered to be in danger.

Like many student volunteers, the kids in the group Town Belt Kaitiaki look after their neighborhood parks — planting trees, weeding, clearing paths. But they also do something less common: ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

Some endangered species have been saved in the nick of time, right before extinction. And their populations are growing through breeding programs. The problem is many of these species don't have a ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand ’s annual bird election is contested by cheeky parrots, sweet songbirds and cute, puffball robins. This year’s winner was a mysterious falcon that wouldn’t ...

The kākāpō is the world's only flightless parrot. It's come back from the brink of extinction, but its future in New Zealand depends on creating habitat without invasive predators. (Yang Liu | Xinhua ...