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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.
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.
This is a list of New Zealand-made television programmes broadcast by Warner Bros. Discovery New Zealand. The free-to-air channels Three , Bravo , Eden , Rush , HGTV , streaming service ThreeNow, and current affairs service ThreeNews are operated by Warner Bros. Discovery .
There are fewer than 1,000 pūteketekes, also known as the Australasian crested grebe, left in New Zealand, as the population recovers from a low of about 200 birds in the 1980s.
The tūī ( Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae) is a boisterous 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. It is one of the largest species in the diverse Australasian ...
November 6, 2023 at 4:16 AM. Oliver is urging voters to cast their vote in New Zealand's Bird of the Century competition. (HBO) (Max) On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, after taking ...
Sooty shearwater. The sooty shearwater ( Ardenna grisea ), or tītī, or muttonbird, is a medium-large shearwater in the seabird family Procellariidae. In New Zealand, it is also known by its Māori name tītī, and as muttonbird, like its relatives the wedge-tailed shearwater ( A. pacificus) and the Australian short-tailed shearwater ( A ...
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 ...