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The Field Guide to the Birds of New Zealand (rev. & updated 4th ed.). New Zealand: Penguin. ISBN 978-0143570929. Checklist Committee Ornithological Society of New Zealand (2010). "Available online as a PDF" (PDF). Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica (4th ed.). New Zealand: Te ...
BirdLife International has defined the following Endemic Bird Areas in New Zealand: . Auckland Islands; Chatham Islands; North Island; South Island; The following are classified as secondary areas, i.e. they have at least one restricted-range bird species, but do not meet the criteria for Endemic Bird Areas:
New Zealand Birds online A comprehensive guide to the birds of New Zealand, maintained by Birds New Zealand, the Department of Conservation, and Te Papa. CSV file with names from New Zealand Birds online A list of all New Zealand Birds including common and scientific names, derived from New Zealand Birds online.
From 1984, the island has been the focus of a wide-scale native forest regeneration project, where over 250,000 native plants have been propagated on the island. [4] The island was chosen as a unique and protected place to provide a public window for rare New Zealand native birds on the edge of a large city and it also lacked introduced ...
Ngā Manu contains aviaries housing native birds such as kākā, kākāriki, scaup, whio and kea, enclosures with tuatara, and a nocturnal house with kiwi [2] and morepork. [ 3 ] Bird life in the reserve comprises up to 60 different bird species, [ 4 ] the most visible being common local birds such as kererū , tūī , black swan , paradise ...
The native bird reserve was officially opened on 27 March 1965. [9] In the same decade, a large number of brown teal, buff weka and kākāriki were released. In 2001 the entire forest became part of the wildlife reserve, extending the area from 55 to 942 hectares, [citation needed] increasing capacity to breed birds and diversified species ...
It includes Individual birds that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Individual birds in New Zealand" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The first illustration of the South Island takahē from Gideon and Walter Mantell's notice of the discovery in 1850. Anatomist Richard Owen was sent fossil bird bones found in 1847 in South Taranaki on the North Island by collector Walter Mantell, and in 1848 he coined the genus Notornis ("southern bird") for them, naming the new species Notornis mantelli. [6]