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Website. birdoftheyear.org.nz. Bird of the Year (Māori: Te Manu Rongonui o te Tau) is an annual election-based competition run by New Zealand conservation organisation Forest & Bird to elect a New Zealand native "Bird of the Year". The competition is intended to raise awareness of the conservation threats to many endangered native birds.
Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae. Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey and includes the osprey, hawks, eagles, kites, harriers and Old World vultures. These birds have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons and keen eyesight. Species.
The birds of New Zealand evolved into an avifauna that included many endemic species found in no other country. As an island archipelago, New Zealand accumulated bird diversity, and when Captain James Cook arrived in the 1770s he noted that the bird song was deafening. The mix includes species with unusual biology such as the kākāpō which is ...
New Zealand’s annual “Bird of the Year” contest is underway, and there’s been a surge in votes for one bird in particular — thanks to “Last Week Tonight” host John Oliver.
Binomial name. Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae. (Gmelin, JF, 1788) The tūī (Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) is a medium-sized bird native to New Zealand. It is blue, green, and bronze coloured with a distinctive white throat tuft (poi). It is an endemic passerine bird of New Zealand, and the only species in the genus Prosthemadera.
New Zealand quail (koreke), Coturnix novaezelandiae EX. New Zealand scaup (pāpango), Aythya novaeseelandiae LC. North Island brown kiwi, Apteryx mantelli EN. North Island kōkako, Callaeas wilsoni EN. North Island piopio, Turnagra tanagra EX. North Island robin (toutouwai), Petroica longipes LC.
September 16, 2024 at 9:38 AM. Thought to be one of the world's rarest penguin species, the hoiho is native to New Zealand [Dunedin NZ] A shy yellow-eyed penguin has come out on top of one of New ...
Takahē. The South Island takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is a flightless swamphen indigenous to New Zealand and the largest living member of the rail family. It is often known by the abbreviated name takahē, which it shares with the recently extinct North Island takahē. The two takahē species are also known as notornis.