New Zealand Birds Online - The digital encyclopaedia of New Zealand birds. A collection of images, sound files and information about New Zealand's unique bird species.

You can find detailed information about all 482 species of New Zealand birds, including all living, extinct, fossil, vagrant and introduced bird species. The database is searchable by name, conservation …

Once found throughout New Zealand, kākāpō started declining in range and abundance after the arrival of Māori. They disappeared from the North Island by about 1930, but persisted longer in the wetter …

With some 530 pages and more than 2100 maps (A4, Colour, case bound, delivered individually boxed) covering over 200 of New Zealand’s endemic, native, migratory and introduced birds, this work is the …

Innately curious, kea are attracted to people wherever they enter its mountain domain, and are a feature at South Island ski-fields and mountain huts. Their attraction to people and their paraphernalia is a …

These new species, as well as ‘out-of-range’ plantings of native species and sugar-water feeders in gardens, now provide tūī with a reliable year-round supply of nectar and fruit.

Silvereyes occur throughout New Zealand from sea level up to about 1,200 m altitude, in urban areas, farmlands, orchards and all indigenous and exotic forests and scrublands, including scrubby edges …

The weka is one of New Zealand’s iconic large flightless birds. Likely derived from a flighted ancestor, weka are 3-6 times larger than banded rails, which are considered their nearest flying relatives.

DNA study suggests all moa species were more closely related to the flighted South American tinamou than to the New Zealand kiwi. They were the dominant New Zealand land vertebrates, exhibiting far …

The marsh crake is one of the most secretive New Zealand birds, largely because it inhabits dense wetland vegetation, rarely ventures into the open and usually only calls at dawn or dusk and through …