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This is the list of the birds of New Zealand. The common name of the bird in New Zealand English is given first, and its Māori-language name, if different, is also noted. The North Island and South Island are the two largest islands of New Zealand. Stewart Island is the largest of the smaller islands.
North Island of New Zealand; South Island of New Zealand; In addition the following are classified as secondary areas: Antipodes Islands; Snares Islands and Stewart Island / Rakiura islets; Secondary areas have at least one restricted-range bird species, but do not meet the criteria for EBAs.
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 the world's only flightless, nocturnal parrot which also exhibits competitive display breeding using leks .
Birds of the North Island (17 P) ... Pages in category "Birds of New Zealand" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total.
Higher-level bird taxa restricted to New Zealand (11 P) Pages in category "Endemic birds of New Zealand" The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total.
This is a list of the bird species recorded on the Campbell Islands. There are 109 bird species on the Campbell Islands , which belong to New Zealand and are about 600 km to the south. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions ...
This is a list of birds of the Chatham Islands, an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about 650 kilometres (400 mi) east of mainland New Zealand.In 1995, Chatham Islands County was dissolved and reconstituted by a New Zealand act of Parliament as the "Chatham Islands Territory", with powers similar to those of territorial authorities and some functions similar to those of a regional council. [1]
The New Zealand kākā (Nestor meridionalis) is a large species of parrot of the family Strigopidae found in New Zealand's native forests across the three main Islands of New Zealand. The species is often known by the abbreviated name kākā , although it shares this name with the recently extinct Norfolk kākā and Chatham kākā .